"bloodcurdling" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more bloodcurdling [comparative], most bloodcurdling [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} bloodcurdling (comparative more bloodcurdling, superlative most bloodcurdling)
  1. Causing great horror or terror. Derived forms: bloodcurdlingly Translations (Causing great horror or terror): bloedstollend (Dutch), vertahyytävä (Finnish), საშინელი (sašineli) (Georgian), markerschütternd (German), haarsträubend (German), schaurig (German), entsetzlich (German), Grauen erregend (German), traumatisch (German), vérfagyasztó (Hungarian), koji ledi krv u žilama (Serbo-Croatian), kan donduran (Turkish), insanın kanını donduran (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-bloodcurdling-en-adj-U8~2~xiy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "sense": "Causing great horror or terror",
          "word": "bloedstollend"
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          "sense": "Causing great horror or terror",
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          "sense": "Causing great horror or terror",
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "Causing great horror or terror",
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "Causing great horror or terror",
          "word": "vérfagyasztó"
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          "sense": "Causing great horror or terror",
          "word": "koji ledi krv u žilama"
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          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "Causing great horror or terror",
          "word": "kan donduran"
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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "Causing great horror or terror",
      "word": "bloedstollend"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Causing great horror or terror",
      "word": "vertahyytävä"
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      "sense": "Causing great horror or terror",
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      "sense": "Causing great horror or terror",
      "word": "markerschütternd"
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      "sense": "Causing great horror or terror",
      "word": "haarsträubend"
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Causing great horror or terror",
      "word": "schaurig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Causing great horror or terror",
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    },
    {
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      "sense": "Causing great horror or terror",
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      "sense": "Causing great horror or terror",
      "word": "traumatisch"
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      "sense": "Causing great horror or terror",
      "word": "vérfagyasztó"
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      "sense": "Causing great horror or terror",
      "word": "koji ledi krv u žilama"
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      "sense": "Causing great horror or terror",
      "word": "kan donduran"
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "Causing great horror or terror",
      "word": "insanın kanını donduran"
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