Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Causing great horror; terrifying.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective causing sudden intense fear due to an apprehension of imminent bodily harm, to oneself or others.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Causing great
horror orterror .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective extremely alarming
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Examples
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Now they began with what his mother described as a bloodcurdling scream, after which David would jump out of bed, knock over furniture, and run about as if trying to escape from something.
Solve Your Child’s Sleep Problems M.D. Richard Ferber 2006
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Now they began with what his mother described as a bloodcurdling scream, after which David would jump out of bed, knock over furniture, and run about as if trying to escape from something.
Solve Your Child’s Sleep Problems M.D. Richard Ferber 2006
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According to Global Ontario, witnesses recalled a bloodcurdling scream and saw a young woman flee from the home early yesterday.
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Sleep terrors often begin with a "bloodcurdling" scream or shout, and cause behavior suggesting extreme terror, such as dilated pupils, rapid breathing, racing heart, sweating, and extreme agitation.
Parasomnias 2010
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Germany, was called off after the "bloodcurdling" screams reported as a woman in distress were really the mating cries of a badger.
Express Milwaukee 2008
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At one point, it can manifest bloodcurdling creatures to chase and taunt the boys, and then it seems to abandon all that to hide in a closet and snigger, then creep into the dreams of the boys and torture them psychologically ad nauseam.
Archive 2010-07-01 2010
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Contrary to the bloodcurdling claims made in public about the crimes of WikiLeaks, senior state department officials appeared to have concluded by mid-January that the WikiLeaks controversy had caused little real and lasting damage to American diplomacy.
WikiLeaks: How US political invective turned on 'anti-American' Julian Assange 2011
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Astrid let out a bloodcurdling scream as she was dragged backward, away from me and toward the door.
Ominous Kate Brian 2011
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Astrid let out a bloodcurdling scream as she was dragged backward, away from me and toward the door.
Ominous Kate Brian 2011
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At one point, it can manifest bloodcurdling creatures to chase and taunt the boys, and then it seems to abandon all that to hide in a closet and snigger, then creep into the dreams of the boys and torture them psychologically ad nauseam.
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