"blood-curdling" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more blood-curdling",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most blood-curdling",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "blood-curdling (comparative more blood-curdling, superlative most blood-curdling)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Fear",
          "orig": "en:Fear",
          "parents": [
            "Emotions",
            "Mind",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "A blood-curdling scream was heard in the haunted house."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Causing terror or horror."
      ],
      "id": "en-blood-curdling-en-adj-kiR8yh9N",
      "links": [
        [
          "terror",
          "terror"
        ],
        [
          "horror",
          "horror"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "blood-chilling"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "terrifying",
          "word": "bloedstollend"
        },
        {
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "makpí dam",
          "sense": "terrifying",
          "word": "מַקְפִּיא דָּם"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "blood-curdling"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more blood-curdling",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most blood-curdling",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "blood-curdling (comparative more blood-curdling, superlative most blood-curdling)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "en:Fear"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "A blood-curdling scream was heard in the haunted house."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Causing terror or horror."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "terror",
          "terror"
        ],
        [
          "horror",
          "horror"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "blood-chilling"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "terrifying",
      "word": "bloedstollend"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "makpí dam",
      "sense": "terrifying",
      "word": "מַקְפִּיא דָּם"
    }
  ],
  "word": "blood-curdling"
}