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uncurl en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + curl.

Meanings

1. (intransitive, transitive) To straighten out from being curled up.
   • Then he uncurled his trunk and knocked two of his dear brothers head over heels. 1902, Rudyard Kipling, “The Elephant's Child”, in Just So Stories:
   • 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:
   • The hedgehog uncurled when its predators had left.

Forms

Deriveds

uncurler