verb
- Form a curl, curve, or kink.
- usage: "the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling"
- Shape one's body into a curl.
- usage: "She curled farther down under the covers"; "She fell and drew in"
- Wind around something in coils or loops.
- Twist or roll into coils or ringlets.
- usage: "curl my hair, please"
- Play the Scottish game of curling.
- synonyms: curl
adjective
- Of hair having curls.
- synonyms: curling
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