Dictionary Entry
curl
curl is a 4-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 9 · 19 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.
- 2noun
To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
- 3noun
To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
- 4noun
To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
- 5noun
To shape (the brim) into a curve.
- 6intransitive verb
To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground.
- 7intransitive verb
To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.
- 8intransitive verb
To play at the game called curling.
- 9verb
A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.
- 10verb
An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
- 11verb
A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.
- 12noun
a strand or cluster of hair
- 13noun
American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
- 14noun
a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- 15verb
form a curl, curve, or kink
"the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling"
- 16verb
play the Scottish game of curling
- 17verb
twist or roll into coils or ringlets
"curl my hair, please"
Synonyms
- 18verb
wind around something in coils or loops
- 19verb
shape one's body into a curl
"She curled farther down under the covers"
"She fell and drew in"
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