Curl Up

Definition: Curl Up

Curl Up

Verb

1. Shape one's body into a curl; "She curled farther down under the covers"; "She fell and drew in".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Curl Up

Contempt

Look down upon; hold cheap, hold in contempt, hold in disrespect; think nothing of, think small beer of; make light of; underestimate; esteem slightly, esteem of small or no account; take no account of, care nothing for; set no store by; not care a straw, sneeze at; (unimportance); set at naught, laugh in one's sleeve, laugh up one's sleeve, snap one;s fingers at, shrug one's shoulders, turn up one's nose at, pooh-pooh, "damn with faint praise"; whistle at, sneer at; curl up one's lip, toss the head, traiter de haut enbas; laugh at; (be disrespectful).

Crosswords: Curl Up

Rain usually makes me feel mellow: curl up in a corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Curl Up and Die Day (reference)

• Curl Up and Die (Worldwide Library Mystery , No 266) (reference)

• Curl Up and Die: A Stella the Stargazer Mystery (Stella the Stargazer Series) (reference)

• Curl Up Small (reference)

• I Think I'll Just Curl Up and Die (Fab 5, No 2) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

shtriqem (nestle, stretch), rehatohem (be appeased, ensconce, nestle, sit back). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عقص. (various references)

Bulgarian 

свивам се на кълбо, гърча се (squirm, twist, writhe). (various references)

Chinese 

跧 (crouch, to curl up), 踡 (to curl up). (various references)

Czech

zkroutit se (warp), stoèit se do klubíèka (snuggle). (various references)

Danish

at oprulle (to curl up). (various references)

Dutch

oprollen (roll, roll up, wind, wind up), opkrullen (to curl up). (various references)

Finnish

käpertyä (be wrapped up in oneself, draw up, roll up, shrivel). (various references)

French

se pelotonner. (various references)

German

zusammenkugeln, sich zusammenrollen (coil up, curl itself up, roll up), sich zusammenkuscheln, sich wellen (be wavy, kink, warp, wave), sich rollen (curl itself up), sich hochbiegen, sich einigen (agree, reach an agreement, settle, to come to terms). (various references)

Greek 

κατσαρώνομαι (to curl up), στρίβομαι (to curl up). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תמר (billow, go up, rise). (various references)

Hungarian

összegömbölyödik (to curl up, to roll up). (various references)

Indonesian

mengerukutkan (causes something to curl up). (various references)

Italian

raggomitolare, accoccovarsi. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

丸める (to cajole, to curl up, to explain away, to make round, to roll up, to round off, to seduce). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まるめる (to cajole, to curl up, to explain away, to make round, to roll up, to round off, to seduce). (various references)

Manx

lhoobey (arching, bend, bow, coil, coiling, curve, double over, flex, hunch, incurvate, inflect, inflexion, loop, looping, sag, squirm, stoop, stooping, twine, winding, wriggle, writhe). (various references)

Pig Latin

urlcay upay

Portuguese

espiralar (twist). (various references)

Romanian

se strânge (bank up, close, collect, convolve, cuddle, draw, flock, furl, herd, jam, join, mass, mob, nuzzle, pack, pile up, snuggle, squash, squeeze, straiten), se rãsuci (convolve, curl, spin, swirl, wheel, wind, wriggle, wriggle oneself), se prãbuşi (come down with a run, crash, crumble, fall, fall drop through, fall in, fall to the ground, founder, go to pieces, ruin, subside, wreck), se încolãci (coil, entwine, twine, twirl, twist, wind, wreathe). (various references)

Russian 

скручиваться, свернуться в клубок (nuzzle, squat). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sklupčati se (go into a huddle). (various references)

Spanish

hacerse un ovillo, arrollarse (coil). (various references)

Swedish

vara slagen, rulla ihop (coil up, furl, roll up, scroll), krypa ihop (cower, cringe, cuddle up, snuggle), känna avsky (keck), ge upp (abandon, back track, call it a day, concede, cut, deliver up, fink, fling up, forsake, give in, give up, lay down, relinquish, scuttle, throw over, throw up, waive). (various references)

Turkish

kıvrılmak (be twisted, bend, crisp, curl, frizz, frizzle, huddle up, meander, snuggle, squirm, sweep, tuck, tuck up, tuck up one's legs, twine itself, twist, twist about, wiggle, wind, wriggle, wriggle about), kıvırmak (angle, bend, contort, Crimp, crisp, crook, curl, do successfully, drape, enfold, entwine, entwist, fold, fold down, frill, frizz, frizzle, gauffer, goffer, gopher, handle, have a command of, inflect, intwine, manage, meander, squirm, squirm out of, tuck, tuck in, tuck up, turn back, turn down, twist, wind, wind up), bükmek (bend, buckle, contort, crook, curl, curve, distort, double, entwine, entwist, flex, fold, fold down, hook, inflect, intwine, spring, strand, throw, twine, twist, wind up, wrench, wrest, wring), bükülmek (bend, crook, curve, fold, spring, twine, twist, wind). (various references)

Turkmen 

зugutmak (roll up). (various references)

Ukrainian

скручуватися (congeal, convolve). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: upcurl.

-2 letters: curl, purl.

-3 letters: cup, cur, pul, pur, ulu.

-4 letters: up.

+1 letter: cupular, upcurls.

+2 letters: upcurled.

+3 letters: crapulous, operculum, purulence, sculpture, superclub, uncoupler, uncrumple, upcurling.

+4 letters: apiculture, crepuscule, operculums, peduncular, pronucleus, purulences, scrupulous, sculptural, sculptured, sculptures, superclubs, uncouplers, uncrumpled, uncrumples.

+5 letters: apicultural, apicultures, corpuscular, crepuscular, crepuscules, groupuscule, precalculus, pulchritude, sculpturing, subcapsular, uncrumpling.