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Curled Up

Definition: Curled Up

Curled Up

Adjective

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

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


Synonym: Curled Up

Synonym: curled (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Curled Up

English words defined with "curled up": curl, curled, curvekink. (references)

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Modern Usage: Curled Up

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Screenplays

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)

Lyrics

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

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Image Slideshow: Curled Up

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Photo Album: Curled Up

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Cat, curled up. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Use in Literature: Curled Up

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Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

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

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

And old people curled up in corners and died that way, so that the coroners could not straighten them.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Expression: Curled Up

Expression using "curled up": curled curled up. Additional references.

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Modern Translation: Curled Up

Language Translations for "curled up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

olla käppyrässä (be curled up, be shrivelled). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

tergelung (coiled up, knotted). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

urledcay upay

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Anagrams: Curled Up

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: upcurled.

Words within the letters "c-d-e-l-p-r-u-u"

-2 letters: cupule, curdle, curled, curule, purled, upcurl.

-3 letters: clued, crude, cruel, cupel, cured, drupe, duper, duple, lucre, lured, perdu, prude, puled, puler, ruled, ulcer.

-4 letters: clue, crud, cued, curd, cure, curl, duce, duel, dupe, dure, ecru, leud, luce, lude, lure, pled, puce, pule, pure, purl, rude, rued, rule.

-5 letters: cel, cep, cud, cue, cup, cur.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-l-p-r-u-u"
 

+2 letters: peduncular, sculptured, uncrumpled.

 

+3 letters: pulchritude.

 

+4 letters: pulchritudes.

 

+5 letters: quadruplicate.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Fiction
8. Expressions
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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