Definitions

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  • adjective having no curves

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Examples

  • The cold creases of uncurving sheets, the greasy click of tumblers turning, Miranda's bony bare feet sliding blind on the icy wood floor.

    Losing Found Things Brett Rosenblatt 2011

  • Gymnotuses are plentiful enough both in the Amazon and its tributaries; and it was one of these living coils, about ten feet long, which, after uncurving itself like a bow, again attacked the diver.

    Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

  • Gymnotuses are plentiful enough both in the Amazon and its tributaries; and it was one of these living coils, about ten feet long, which, after uncurving itself like a bow, again attacked the diver.

    Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon Jules Verne 1866

  • 1 Xavier sat in his room, the uncurving walls wrapped around him like a prism.

    Maybe Maybe brian warfield 2011

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