Definitions for uncurl

uncurl un·curl

Spelling: [uhn-kurl]
IPA: /ʌnˈkɜrl/

Uncurl is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in uncurl (clnruu).

Definitions for uncurl

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to straighten or become straightened out from a curl or curled position.

Origin of uncurl

First recorded in 1580-90; un-2 + curl

Examples for uncurl

He swayed slightly, shifting his weight, and his big toe began once more to curl and uncurl.

The flower is to open more widely; the inner ring of petals must uncurl.

The boys left the hedgehog to uncurl himself when he pleased, and next went to a cucumber frame where Charley kept a pet toad.

These leaves curl over at the tip, along with the buds, and they uncurl as the flowers open.

His heavy moustache seemed to uncurl itself nervously, and his jaw dropped slowly, as he watched Claudius leave the deck-cabin.

The head seemed the only thing alive about him, except that slow curl and uncurl of the laboring back-muscles.

The head seemed the only thing alive about him, except that slow curl and uncurl of the laboring back muscles.

After a time Richard convinced himself that the kink was a part of the pig's tail and stopped trying to uncurl it.

The rest began to uncurl in the box, and she discovered what had happened.

Then the great army column that has curled itself up like a caterpillar for the night begins slowly to uncurl.

Word Value for uncurl
Scrable

8

Words with friends

13

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