blood-curdling

comparative more blood-curdling · superlative most blood-curdling

1. alternativeAlternative form of bloodcurdling.

   `Yes, yes,' said the other, and chuckled in a rather blood-curdling tone.

   1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

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   But presently Numa gave up the chase and, with a series of blood-curdling moans and roars, turned angrily back in search of another and an easier dinner.

   1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 121

   Restrain also the keen fury of my heart which provokes me to tread the ways of blood-curdling strife.

   1914, Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Hesiod, the Homeric hymns and Homerica, London: W. Heineman, page 435

   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!!!!!!”

   2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN