recurves

Verb

recurve (third-person singular simple present recurves, present participle recurving, simple past and past participle recurved)

1. To curve again, to rebend.
2. To curve back on itself.
3. To change direction.
   • Nearly all of the storms which originate in the Cape Verde region first move in a westerly direction over the Atlantic and later recurve in a northerly or northeasterly direction.1934, Ivan Ray Tannehill, The Hurricane, page 6

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