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Definition of Curl
Curl
To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.

To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.

To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.

To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.

To shape (the brim) into a curve.

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.

To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls.

To play at the game called curling.

A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form.

An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.

A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken.


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Curl Quotations
A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
Marilyn Monroe

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou

Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in the mirror.
Ann Coulter

You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while - it's weird.
Michael Hutchence

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.
Anthony Hopkins

But I always curl my lashes, even if I don't put on mascara. I'll also put on a lip gloss or lip balm. And I always brush my eyebrows. I have very thick eyebrows - I'm just now starting to thin them out a bit.
Denise Richards

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.
Lynn Abbey


The conservative movement was told to curl up in a fetal position and just stay there for the next eight years, thank you very much. Well, how things have changed.
Christine O'Donnell

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
Abraham Cahan

I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.
Macy Gray

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Curl Translations
curl in Afrikaans is roer
curl in Dutch is krullen
curl in French is coiffer
curl in German is Locke
curl in Italian is riccio
curl in Latin is torqueo
curl in Portuguese is onda
curl in Spanish is rizo, bucle






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