All incurvate synonyms
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I i adj incurvate
- curved β A curved object has the shape of a curve or has a smoothly bending surface.
- curvaceous β If someone describes a woman as curvaceous, they think she is attractive because of the curves of her body.
- arched β An arched roof, window, or doorway is curved at the top.
- crooked β If you describe something as crooked, especially something that is usually straight, you mean that it is bent or twisted.
- twisted β to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
- serpentine β of, characteristic of, or resembling a serpent, as in form or movement.
- twisting β a deviation in direction; curve; bend; turn.
- looped β having or consisting of loops; loopy.
- compass β A compass is an instrument that you use for finding directions. It has a dial and a magnetic needle that always points to the north.
- sweeping β of wide range or scope.
verb incurvate
- bend β When you bend, you move the top part of your body downwards and forwards. Plants and trees also bend.
- flex β to bend, as a part of the body: He flexed his arms to show off his muscles.
- crouch β If you are crouching, your legs are bent under you so that you are close to the ground and leaning forward slightly.
- incline β to deviate from the vertical or horizontal; slant.
- veer β to change direction or turn about or aside; shift, turn, or change from one course, position, inclination, etc., to another: The speaker kept veering from his main topic. The car veered off the road.
- tilt β to furnish with a tilt.
- buckle β A buckle is a piece of metal or plastic attached to one end of a belt or strap, which is used to fasten it.
- stoop β to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position: to stoop over a desk.
- lean β to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
- bow β When you bow to someone, you briefly bend your body towards them as a formal way of greeting them or showing respect.
- twist β to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
- curl β If you have curls, your hair is in the form of tight curves and spirals.
- swerve β to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
- pervert β to affect with perversion.
- deform β If something deforms a person's body or something else, it causes it to have an unnatural shape. In technical English, you can also say that the second thing deforms.
- zigzag β a line, course, or progression characterized by sharp turns first to one side and then to the other.
- crook β A crook is a dishonest person or a criminal.
- verge β the edge, rim, or margin of something: the verge of a desert; to operate on the verge of fraud.
- droop β to sag, sink, bend, or hang down, as from weakness, exhaustion, or lack of support.
- yaw β to deviate temporarily from a straight course, as a ship.
- spiral β Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- warp β OS/2
- circle β A circle is a shape consisting of a curved line completely surrounding an area. Every part of the line is the same distance from the centre of the area.
- detour β If you make a detour on a journey, you go by a route which is not the shortest way, because you want to avoid something such as a traffic jam, or because there is something you want to do on the way.
- deflect β If you deflect something that is moving, you make it go in a slightly different direction, for example by hitting or blocking it.
- contort β If someone's face or body contorts or is contorted, it moves into an unnatural and unattractive shape or position.
- waver β to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- arch β An arch is a structure that is curved at the top and is supported on either side by a pillar, post, or wall.
- crimp β If you crimp something such as a piece of fabric or pastry, you make small folds in it.
- hook β a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
- wilt β to exercise the will: To will is not enough, one must do.
- double β twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
- turn β to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- genuflect β to bend the knee or touch one knee to the floor in reverence or worship.
- careen β To careen somewhere means to rush forward in an uncontrollable way.
- loop β a hot bloom of pasty consistency, to be worked under a hammer or in rolls.
- crinkle β If something crinkles or if you crinkle it, it becomes slightly creased or folded.
- round β having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- wind β the act of winding.
- camber β A camber is a gradual downward slope from the centre of a road to each side of it.