uncurl

Verb

uncurl (third-person singular simple present uncurls, present participle uncurling, simple past and past participle uncurled)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To straighten out from being curled up.
   • The hedgehog uncurled when its predators had left.
   • But when his foe lyes prostrate on the plain,
     He sheaths his paws, uncurls his angry mane;
     And, pleas'd with bloudless honours of the day,
     Walks over, and disdains th' inglorious Prey.1687, John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther