Crossword-Solution: CURL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Curl | n. | To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair. |
| Curl | n. | To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body. |
| Curl | n. | To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament. |
| Curl | n. | To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple. |
| Curl | n. | To shape (the brim) into a curve. |
| Curl | v. i. | To contract or bend into curls or ringlets, as hair; to grow in curls or spirals, as a vine; to be crinkled or contorted; to have a curly appearance; as, leaves lie curled on the ground. |
| Curl | v. i. | To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls. |
| Curl | v. i. | To play at the game called curling. |
| Curl | v. | A ringlet, especially of hair; anything of a spiral or winding form. |
| Curl | v. | An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity. |
| Curl | v. | A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CURL (5)
But I’ll sell it, and sit under thatched hurdles as they did in old times, curl up to sleep in a lock of straw! It played me nearly the same trick the other day!” Gabriel, by way of emphasis, brought down his fist upon the floor.
They keep a little mat for him by the fire, and at night he curl up there and sit with the family, just as friendly!” Gunner sniffed with disgust.
When the apes had filled their bellies and many of them had sought the bases of the trees to curl up in sleep Akut plucked Korak by the arm.
Amasai (hired man) in a purple tie and some bright yellow buckskin gloves, very red and shaved, has just driven off with Carrie (hired girl) in a big hat trimmed with red roses and a blue muslin dress and her hair curled as tight as it will curl.
But, dear sisters, see you not how high the sun is getting? I have my locks to curl, and my robe to prepare for the evening; therefore I must be gone, or I shall be brown as a withered leaf in this warm light.” So, gathering a tiny mushroom for a parasol, she flew away; Daisy soon followed, and Violet was left alone.
Quotes with CURL (3)
I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.
Here's a news flash for the ladies: for every one of you who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina Jolie, all skinny elbows and angles, the truth is, we'd rather curl up with someone like Charlotte - a woman who's soft when a guy wraps his arms around her; a woman who might have a smear of flour on her shirt the whole day and not notice or care, not even when she goes out to meet with the PTA; a woman who doesn't feel like an exotic vacation but is the home we can't wait to come back to.
He studied my appearance carefully. “You cut your hair.” “Yes. Do you like it?” “That depends. How long is it?” I pulled a curl down and showed him it ended just past my shoulder. He grunted, “That’s still long enough, so I like it.” “Long enough for what?” “Long enough for a man to run his hands through.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 203 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).