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Curved   /kərvd/   Listen
Curved

adjective
1.
Having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend.  Synonym: curving.  "His curved lips suggested a smile but his eyes were hard"



Curve

verb
(past & past part. curved; pres. part. curving)
1.
Turn sharply; change direction abruptly.  Synonyms: cut, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer.  "The motorbike veered to the right"
2.
Extend in curves and turns.  Synonyms: twist, wind.  "The path twisted through the forest"
3.
Form an arch or curve.  Synonyms: arc, arch.  "Her hips curve nicely"
4.
Bend or cause to bend.  Synonym: crook.  "The road curved sharply"
5.
Form a curl, curve, or kink.  Synonyms: curl, kink.



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"Curved" Quotes from Famous Books



... The sun shone brightly on the floor, sending its clear rays obliquely through the window. The sharp eyes which now covered every inch of the yellow-painted floor discovered something else. They discovered that this red thread curved slightly and had a continuation in a fine scratch in the paint of the floor. Muller followed up this scratch and it led him over towards the window and then back again in wide curves, then out again under the desk and finally, growing weaker and weaker, it came back ...
— The Case of The Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study • Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner

... This real head of the Emma Winslow family was far too much absorbed in making Carl tell of his long races, and "Why does a flying-machine fly? What's a wind pressure? Why does the wind shove up? Why is the wings curved? Why does it want to catch the wind?" The others listened, including even ...
— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis

... great lights seemed to have been lighted in the midnight pools of her eyes, the curved lips parted a little, showing the perfect, even teeth; the rounded, warm-hued cheeks glowed; the lids of her eyes lifted as those of a person looking ...
— Six Women • Victoria Cross

... the grass near the village of Atures, in the midst of a savannah. It was two in the afternoon when a jaguar issued from the forest and approached the children, gambolling around them, sometimes concealing itself among the long grass and again springing forward with his back curved and his head lowered, as is usual with our cats. The little boy was unaware of the danger in which he was placed, and became sensible of it only when the jaguar struck him on the side of the head with one of his paws. The blows thus inflicted were at first slight, but gradually ...
— The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 • Various

... desirous to extend his arms to the twisting ropes, had no arms, and becoming crooked, with a body deprived of limbs, he leaped into the waves; the end of his tail was hooked, just as the horns of the half-moon are curved. They flounce about on every side, and bedew {the ship} with plenteous spray, and again they emerge, and once more they return beneath the waves. They sport with {all} the appearance of a dance, and toss their sportive bodies, and blow forth the sea, received within their wide ...
— The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Vol. I, Books I-VII • Publius Ovidius Naso


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