What does bloodcurdling mean?
Bloodcurdling means Causing great horror or terror..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Causing great horror or terror..
Out of nowhere, in the middle of the night, came a bloodcurdling scream.
Yet the old-time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as “historical” in the children’s library; for the time has come for a series of newer “wonder tales” in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and bloodcurdling incident devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale.
Use bloodcurdling when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bloodcurdling means Causing great horror or terror..
Common synonyms include blood-chilling, alarming, hair-raising, nightmarish.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Out of nowhere, in the middle of the night, came a bloodcurdling scream.
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