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Upcurl

Upcurl \Up*curl"\, v. t. To curl up. [R.]
--Tennyson.

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upcurl

vb. (context transitive rare English) To curl up

Usage examples of "upcurl".

She yawned wide, unsmothered, white teeth gleaming in membranous red, pointed tongue upcurled, stretched her elbows high, fists close to her throat.

Above the shadowy world, Still more and more unfurled, The gathered mists upcurled Like phantoms melt and pass.

Hair coasting over the juncture of jawbone and ear, slightly upcurled, the palest of browns.

The smudged and hollow-eyed young female flight lieutenant reeled off facts and figures of bitter defeat with no expression except that last upcurling of one corner of her mouth.

Out ahead of him, the caramel-dark waters of Inhoplae stretched away into the distance, upcurling to Antispinward, towards Sonepur.

He looked down towards the turquoise beginnings of Marineris, upcurling away from him to Spinward along the orbital.

Lost to upcurling distance some 20 kilometres away was the long, white beach on the far shore where the arching, looping bridge terminated.