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The Meaning of curl

  • (n.) To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.
  • (n.) To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
  • (n.) To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
  • (n.) To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
  • (n.) To shape (the brim) into a curve.
  • (v. i.) To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground.
  • (v. i.) To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.
  • (v. i.) To play at the game called curling.
  • (v.) A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.
  • (v.) An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
  • (v.) A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.

Synonyms

scroll , curlicue , bankroll , pealing , cast , helix , coil , paradiddle , rolling wave , drum roll , peal , ringlet butterfly , axial rotation , roll , volute , spiral , ringlet , roster , bowl , squiggle , lock , axial motion , whorl , gyre , rolling , roller , bun , ignition lock , lock chamber , wave , arc , curl up , sheer , slew , loop , twist , slue , frizz , arch , crimp , cut , swerve , wind , crape , trend , kink up , curve , kink , crook , frizzle , veer , draw in , retract , draw , move in , pull in , suck in , pull , get in , attract , close in , hand-build , handbuild , intertwine , gyrate , undulate , brandish , beckon , flap , flourish , change surface

Rhymes

berle , birle , burl , cowgirl , earl , earle , earll , erl , girl , hearl , herl , hurl , merl , merle , pearl , pearle , perl , perle , searl , searle , shirl , showgirl , sperle , swirl , twirl , unfurl , werle , whirl , whorl , wurl