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uncurl
verb as in straighten
Example Sentences
If you have to uncurl your fingers to stand fully upright, your RAD is too short.
His heavy moustache seemed to uncurl itself nervously, and his jaw dropped slowly, as he watched Claudius leave the deck-cabin.
After a time Richard convinced himself that the kink was a part of the pig's tail and stopped trying to uncurl it.
The withered fronds of last year are pushed off the fern by the new ones as they uncurl.
The flower is to open more widely; the inner ring of petals must uncurl.
These leaves curl over at the tip, along with the buds, and they uncurl as the flowers open.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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