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CURL

Definition:

1. [noun] a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles
   Synonyms: coil, whorl, roll, icue, ringlet, gyre, scroll
   
   
2. [noun] American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
   Synonyms: Curl, Robert Curl, Robert F. Curl, Robert Floyd Curl Jr.
   
   
3. [noun] a strand or cluster of hair
   Synonyms: lock, ringlet, whorl
   
   
4. [verb] form a curl, curve, or kink; "the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling"
   Synonyms: curve, kink
   
   
5. [verb] shape one's body into a curl; "She curled farther down under the covers"; "She fell and drew in"
   Synonyms: up, draw in
   
   
6. [verb] wind around something in coils or loops
   Synonyms: coil, loop
   
   
7. [verb] twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please"
   Synonyms: wave
   
   
8. [verb] play the Scottish game of curling
   
   

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Related Words:

• crimp, crape, frizzle, frizz, kink up, kink
• corolla
• calyx
• verticil
• sausage curl
• forelock
• crimp
• dreadlock

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