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What (who) is blood-curdling - definition
blood-curdling
also bloodcurdling
A blood-curdling sound or story is very frightening and horrible.
...blood-curdling tales.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
blood-curdling
¦ adjective horrifying; very frightening.
Blood (journal)
JOURNAL
Blood, Balt.; Blood, Bost.; Blood, N.Y.; Blood, N. Y.; Blood (Baltimore); Blood (Boston); Blood (New York)
Blood is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Society of Hematology. It was established by William Dameshek in 1946.
Examples of use of blood-curdling
1. Neighbours rushed out after hearing the "blood–curdling" scream.
2. William Shawcross should be dashing up to London for a round of blood–curdling television interviews.
3. Despite the blood–curdling predictions of people dying in the streets, this did not happen.
4. Here were blood–curdling screams as girls bounced down the stone steps on their duvets.
5. So much for the blood–curdling briefings about suicide vests somehow bulging with poison.