curl up

Speech parts

1. curl up - Noun

2. curl up - Verb

Meaning

shape one's body into a curl

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

curl-up

Synonyms

curl draw in crouch nestle burrow caress cuddle cluster settle coil embrace bundle consult flock spoon

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Antonyms

release separate spread remove destroy reveal

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Hypernyms

bend flex

Examples

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night. Marilyn Monroe

The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil. Robert Frost

The conservative movement was told to curl up in a fetal position and just stay there for the next eight years, thank you very much. Well, how things have changed. Christine O'Donnell

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history. Lynn Abbey

I have a screened in porch, and it's nice to curl up with a book outside when it's raining, especially an old battered classic like 'Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.' Amanda Hocking

You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while - it's weird. Michael Hutchence

Close letter words and terms

curl one out curl one's lip at curl someone's hair curl upwards curl-crested manucode curl-paper