curving

Verb

curve (third-person singular simple present curves, present participle curving, simple past and past participle curved)

1. (transitive) To bend; to crook.
   • to curve a line
2. (transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.
   • to curve a ball in pitching it
3. (intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
   • the road curves to the right
4. (transitive) To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
   • The teacher will curve the test.
5. (slang, transitive) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
   • I was once curved three times by the same woman.

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