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upcurls

upcurls is the third-person singular simple present indicative of upcurl.

upcurls is the plural of upcurl.

Meaning of upcurl

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

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Questions about upcurls

What is upcurls the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Upcurls is the third-person singular simple present indicative of upcurl.

Words near upcurls in the dictionary

  1. upcrying
  2. UPCs
  3. upcurl
  4. upcurled
  5. upcurling
  6. upcurls
  7. upcurrent
  8. upcurrents
  9. upcurve
  10. upcurved
  11. upcurves

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Adapted from Wiktionary: upcurls (page history and authors); upcurl (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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