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Textual thesaurus for "curl"

(noun) whorl, lock, ringlet

a strand or cluster of hair


(noun) Robert Curl, Robert F. Curl, Robert Floyd Curl Jr., Curl

American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)


(noun) curlicue, coil, gyre, whorl, ringlet, scroll, roll

a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)


(verb) curve, kink

form a curl, curve, or kink

the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling


(verb) wave

twist or roll into coils or ringlets

curl my hair, please


(verb) coil, loop

wind around something in coils or loops


(verb) draw in, curl up

shape one's body into a curl

She curled farther down under the covers; She fell and drew in