Curled

Definition: Curled

Curled

Adjective

1. Drawn up into a ball; "she lay curled up in a big armchair".

2. Having curls.

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

Date "curled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Curled

Crosswords: Curled

I just assumed you curled up with a handful of dirt from your homeland and waited 'til dawn. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

Curled up in my father and that means something to me (Believe; performing artist: Elton John)

I remember the way you curled your toes (Answer The Phone; performing artist: Sugar Ray)

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

Books

• Robert Mangold: Curled Figure Paintings: March 23-April 21, 2001 (reference)

  (more book examples)

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A white plate on a tablecloth of white and lavender design. The plate contains a green apple, a curled orange peel, 3 orange slices and 3 purple grapes. Other purple grapes are scattered on the tablecloth. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Basket star curled on deep hard bottom off Hawaii. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Curled Beaked Shore Bird, Lakeview District. Credit: Terry Spivey.

Cat, curled up. Credit: Library of Congress.

She curled the whip-lash sharply round his legs. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The hair was curled, and the maid sent away, and Emma sat down to think and be miserable.

His body was curled up on the inclined plane and his feet touched the ground.

An evil smell, faint and foul as the light, curled upwards sluggishly out of the canisters and from the stale crusted dung.

Its tail hung limply curled, and it panted loudly.

There lay his old clothes curled up by use, as if they were himself, upon his raised plank bed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Curled

Expressions using "curled": curled curled up ♦ Curled hair ♦ Curled maple ♦ curled pondweed ♦ curled up. Additional references.

Beginning with "curled": curled-up, curled-up-with-age.

Ending with "curled": barrel-curled, bubble-curled, down-curled, finger-curled, pin-curled, soft-curled, sweat-curled, tightly-curled.

Containing "curled": half-curled-up.

Chinese 

鬈 (to curl), 卷曲 (Crimp, Crinkled, Crinkling, Curling, Curly, frizz, Frizzed, Frizzes, Frizzing, frizzy). (various references)

Danish

uregelmæssigt foldet polerring (bias mop, curled buff), kruset skraeppe (curled dock, curly dock, yellow dock), bertlet kant (beaded edge, curled rim, rolled bead). (various references)

Dutch

luchtgekoelde schijf voor polijstautomaat (bias mop, curled buff), krulzuring (curled dock, curly dock, yellow dock), gekrulde rand (beaded edge, curled rim, rolled bead). (various references)

Finnish

poimuhierakka (curled dock, curly dock, yellow dock), olla käppyrässä (be curled up, be shrivelled). (various references)

French

rumex crépu (curled dock, curly dock), disque � polir froncé (curled buff), bord roulé (curled rim). (various references)

German

gelockt (curly, curly haired, enticed, wooed). (various references)

Greek 

κυρτωμένη ακμή (beaded edge, curled rim, rolled bead), πτυχωτός δίσκος λειάνσεως (bias mop, curled buff), λάπαθον το ούλον (curled dock, curly dock, yellow dock), λάπαθο (dock), αγριολάπαθο (curled dock, curly dock, yellow dock). (various references)

Hebrew 

מתולתל (curly, ringleted), מסולסל (curly, exalted, florid, flowery, fulsome, fuzzy, ornate, ringleted, waved). (various references)

Indonesian

tergelung (coiled up, curled up, knotted), kerukut (curled up or over, warped (of wood)). (various references)

Italian

romice crespa (curled dock, curly dock, yellow dock), romice (curled dock, curly dock, yellow dock), lapazio (curled dock, curly dock, yellow dock), disco arricciato (bias mop, curled buff), bordo arricciato (beaded edge, curled rim, rolled bead, wrinkled ring, wrinkled top). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

縮れる (to be curled, to be wavy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ちぢれる (to be curled, to be wavy). (various references)

Korean 

컬하�". (various references)

Manx

trooaragh, cass-lhoobagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

urledcay

Portuguese

disco de polimento (bias mop, curled buff), bordo rolado (beaded edge, bulb, curled rim, rolled bead). (various references)

Romanian

cârlionţat (crimped, frizzled, kinky, waved), buclat (curly). (various references)

Scottish

cas (abrupt, fire, foot, gnash the teeth, haft : casan, leg, oppose, passionate, paw, rash, shaft, steep, thwart, to close upon), guairsgeach, amlach. (various references)

Spanish

canto rebordeado (beaded edge, curled rim, rolled bead), lengua de vaca (neat's tongue), hidrolapato menor (curled dock, curly dock, yellow dock), disco de pulido rizado (bias mop, curled buff), disco de pulido con plegado irregular (bias mop, curled buff). (various references)

Swedish

krusskräppa (curled dock, curly dock, yellow dock). (various references)

Turkish

sarmal (convolute, convoluted, helical, spiral, spiri-, spiry, voluted, winding), lüle lüle (tressed), kıvrımlı (corrugated, crinkly, curly, meandering, plaited, serpentine, sinuous, tortuous, twisted, voluted), kıvırcık (crisp, crispy, curly, curly-fleeced sheep, curly-head, curly-pate, frizzly, frizzy, woolly). (various references)

crispanti, crispus. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "curled": uncurled, upcurled. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Curled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: carld, coreld, Corlea, corled, cotled, crule, cruled, curel, curld, curley, curule, cutled, Ucrel, urled. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: curdle.

-1 letter: clued, crude, cruel, cured, lucre, lured, ruled, ulcer.

-2 letters: clue, crud, cued, curd, cure, curl, duce, duel, dure, ecru, leud, luce, lude, lure, rude, rued, rule.

-3 letters: cel, cud, cue, cur, del, due, ecu, eld, led, leu, rec, red, rue, urd.

-4 letters: de, ed, el, er, re.

+1 letter: cloured, crudely, cuddler, curdled, curdler, curdles, lurched, ruckled, ulcered.

+2 letters: auricled, barleduc, closured, clotured, cloudier, colluder, coloured, crumbled, crumpled, cuddlers, cuddlier, cudgeler, cultured, curdlers, cursedly, curvedly, decolour, dulcimer, excluder, lectured, preclude, relucted, ridicule, scrupled, truckled, uncurled, upcurled.

+3 letters: barleducs, bucklered, chondrule, clamoured, clustered, cluttered, colluders, concluder, credulity, credulous, cudgelers, cullender, curlicued, curtailed, decolours, dulcimers, dulcimore, excluders, lacquered, overcloud, precluded, precludes, recoupled, reducible, reducibly, ridiculed, ridiculer, ridicules, scheduler, scoundrel, trauchled, ulcerated, uncolored, undercool.