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Uncurl

verb
1.
Move out of a curled position.






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"Uncurl" Quotes from Famous Books



... when the sun Called to each frond and whorl That all he could for flowers was being done, Why did it not uncurl? ...
— Poems of the Past and the Present • Thomas Hardy

... the only thing alive about him, except that slow curl and uncurl of the laboring back-muscles. Janoo from the bed was breathing seventy to the minute; Azizun held her hands before her eyes; and old Suddhoo, fingering at the dirt that had got into his white beard, was crying to himself. The horror ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling

... and off to Europe, adding that she was not sorry for what she had done. He is a handsome man, tall and dark; she is a jolly, buxom blonde, with a charming smile which shows all her thirty and something teeth, and makes her red, thick lips uncurl. I thought, for such a newly married couple, they were not at all sentimental, which I should have supposed natural. She became sea-sick directly, and he called attention to her as she lay stretched out on a bench looking dreadfully ...
— In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875. • L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone



Words linked to "Uncurl" :   change posture



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