curve
/kɚv/ verb C2- To bend; to crook. · to curve a line· to curve a pipe
- To cause to swerve from a straight course. · to curve a ball in pitching it
- To bend or turn gradually from a given direction. · the road curves to the right
- To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution). · The teacher will curve the test.
- To reject, to turn down romantic advances. · I was once curved three times by the same woman.
He/she/it curves · Past curved · Past participle curved · -ing form curving
Verb forms
- Base form
- curve
- He/she/it
- curves
- Past
- curved
- Past participle
- curved
- -ing form
- curving
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She had just succeeded in curving it down into a graceful zigzag, and was going to dive in among the leaves, which she found to be nothing but the tops of the trees under which she had been wandering, when a sharp hiss made her draw back in a hurry: a large pigeon had flown into her face, and was beating her violently with its wings.
The curve of the broken dome was above his head.
Curved in the shape of a Cupid’s bow?
A certain melancholy that touched her countenance must have been of recent birth, for it had not yet altered the fine and youthful contours of her cheek, nor subdued the arch though resolute curve of her lips.
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