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curl

(kûrl)

v. curled, curl·ing, curls

v.tr.

1. To twist (the hair, for example) into ringlets or coils.

2. To form into a coiled or spiral shape: curled the ends of the ribbon.

3. To decorate with coiled or spiral shapes.

4. To raise and turn under (the upper lip), as in snarling or showing scorn.

5. Sports To lift (a weight) by performing a curl.

v.intr.

1. To form ringlets or coils.

2. To assume a spiral or curved shape.

3. To move in a curve or spiral: The wave curled over the surfer.

4. Sports To engage in curling.

1. Something with a spiral or coiled shape.

2. A coil or ringlet of hair.

3. A treatment in which the hair is curled.

a. The act of curling: the curl of a meandering river.

b. The state of being curled.

5. Sports A weightlifting exercise using one or two hands, in which a weight held at the thigh or to the side of the body is raised to the chest or shoulder and then lowered without moving the upper arms, shoulders, or back.

6. Any of various plant diseases in which the leaves roll up.

Phrasal Verb:

curl up

To assume a position with the legs drawn up: The child curled up in an armchair to read.

[Middle English crullen, curlen, from crulle, curly, perhaps of Middle Low German origin.]

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curled

(kɜːld)

adj

in a curved or spiral shape or position

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Adj.

curled - of hair having curls

curling

curly - (of hair) having curls or waves; "they envied her naturally curly hair"

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I had been sleeping, curled up in a red plush seat, for a long while when we reached Black Hawk.

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His hair was curled down over his forehead in an oiled bang.

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The squabbling and bickering among the dogs had long since died down, and the weary animals were curled in the snow, each with his feet and nose bunched together and covered by his wolf's brush of a tail.

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"The Priory at Christ church was a noble pile, but it was cold and bare, methinks, by one of these, with their frettings, and their carvings, and their traceries, as though some great ivy-plant of stone had curled and wantoned over the walls."

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On the few occasions when anything amused him, he curled up a little at the corners of the lips, nothing more.

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His cheeks and chin were in the bluest bloom of smooth shaving; his nose was short Roman; his lips long, thin, and supple, curled up at the corners with a mildly-humorous smile.