upcurl

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verb

To curl up.

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Meanings

verbupcurl (third-person singular simple present upcurls, present participle upcurling, simple past and past participle upcurled)

present singular third person upcurls · participle present upcurling · participle past upcurled · past upcurled

  1. raretransitiveTo 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
nounupcurl (plural upcurls)

plural upcurls

  1. An upward curl.

    She notes an upcurl on the bottom stroke of the paraphs by 'a', and the absence of a bottom stroke in those of 'b'; […]

    2016, Susanna Fein, The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives, page 181

Origin

From up- + curl.

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Translations

Dutch krullen
  • krullencurl up
Cite this entry
APA

upcurl. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/upcurl

MLA

“upcurl.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/upcurl. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “upcurl,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/upcurl.

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