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upcurl

upcurl verb: to curl up.

Verb

upcurl (third-person singular simple present upcurls, present participle upcurling, simple past and past participle upcurled)

  1. (rare, transitive) To curl up.
    • Thus truth was multiplied on truth, the world / Like one great garden show'd, / And thro' the wreaths of floating dark upcurl'd, / Rare sunrise flow'd.1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “The Poet”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, stanza 9, page 48

Noun

upcurl (plural upcurls)

  1. An upward curl.
    • She notes an upcurl on the bottom stroke of the paraphs by 'a', and the absence of a bottom stroke in those of 'b'; […]2016, Susanna Fein, The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives, page 181

Forms of upcurl

Verb
third-person singular presentupcurls
present participleupcurling
past participleupcurled
pastupcurled
Noun
pluralupcurls

Origin of upcurl

From up- + curl.

Questions about upcurl

What does upcurl mean?
Upcurl means to curl up.
What part of speech is upcurl?
Upcurl can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of upcurl?
The past tense of upcurl is upcurled.

Words near upcurl in the dictionary

  1. upcrossing
  2. upcrossings
  3. upcry
  4. upcrying
  5. UPCs
  6. upcurl
  7. upcurled
  8. upcurling
  9. upcurls
  10. upcurrent
  11. upcurrents

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