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Definition: Curled Up |
Curled UpAdjective1. Drawn up into a ball; "she lay curled up in a big armchair". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Curled UpSynonym: curled (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Curled Up |
| English words defined with "curled up": curl, curled, curve ♦ kink. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I just assumed you curled up with a handful of dirt from your homeland and waited 'til dawn. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) | |
Lyrics | Curled up in my father and that means something to me (Believe; performing artist: Elton John) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Cat, curled up. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | His body was curled up on the inclined plane and his feet touched the ground. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And old people curled up in corners and died that way, so that the coroners could not straighten them. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | There lay his old clothes curled up by use, as if they were himself, upon his raised plank bed. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Expression using "curled up": curled curled up. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "curled up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Finnish | olla käppyrässä (be curled up, be shrivelled). (various references) | ||||
Indonesian | tergelung (coiled up, knotted). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | urledcay upay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: upcurled. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-l-p-r-u-u" | |
-2 letters: cupule, curdle, curled, curule, purled, upcurl. | |
-3 letters: clued, crude, cruel, cupel, cured, drupe, duper, duple, lucre, lured, perdu, prude, puled, puler, ruled, ulcer. | |
-4 letters: clue, crud, cued, curd, cure, curl, duce, duel, dupe, dure, ecru, leud, luce, lude, lure, pled, puce, pule, pure, purl, rude, rued, rule. | |
-5 letters: cel, cep, cud, cue, cup, cur. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-l-p-r-u-u" | |
+2 letters: peduncular, sculptured, uncrumpled. | |
+3 letters: pulchritude. | |
+4 letters: pulchritudes. | |
+5 letters: quadruplicate. | |
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