"blood-curdling" meaning in English

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  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "text": "A blood-curdling scream was heard in the haunted house.",
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          "ref": "1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:",
          "text": "`Yes, yes,' said the other, and chuckled in a rather blood-curdling tone.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:",
          "text": "As the van hurtled towards her, she threw the bag at the bonnet of the van. As it struck, she let out a blood-curdling scream, as if she had been run over. “AAAAARRR GGGGHHHH!!!!!!”",
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        "Causing terror or horror."
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          "horror"
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        {
          "word": "blood-chilling"
        },
        {
          "word": "bloodcurdling"
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          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "terrifying",
          "word": "bloedstollend"
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        {
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "makpí dam",
          "sense": "terrifying",
          "word": "מַקְפִּיא דָּם"
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  "word": "blood-curdling"
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          "text": "As the van hurtled towards her, she threw the bag at the bonnet of the van. As it struck, she let out a blood-curdling scream, as if she had been run over. “AAAAARRR GGGGHHHH!!!!!!”",
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          "word": "blood-chilling"
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    {
      "word": "bloodcurdling"
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      "sense": "terrifying",
      "word": "bloedstollend"
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    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "makpí dam",
      "sense": "terrifying",
      "word": "מַקְפִּיא דָּם"
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  "word": "blood-curdling"
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