uncurl

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Johnson wrote that he heard his mother’s voice saying to him: “Don’t move. Uncurl your fists, but don’t sit back down because it will look like you’re backing down.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2022

“I don’t want to hear it any more. You sing it very well, but I drat want it again. Uncurl, you idiot, and tell me where you learned to sing.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Uncurl, un-kurl′, v.t. to loose from curls or ringlets.—v.i. to relax from a curled state.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Far in the sea, against the foaming shore, There stands a rock: the raging billows roar Above his head in storms; but, when 't is clear, Uncurl their ridgy backs, and at his foot appear.

From The Aeneid English by Virgil