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uncurls

  • present tense form
    of uncurl (3rd person singular).
    uncurl
    verb (used with or without object)
    to straighten or become straightened out from a curl or curled position.

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The worker uncurls its claw-like fingers, daintily grips the basket by its edges and walks it over to a conveyor that will send it through an industrial washing machine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026

When he makes a fist, then uncurls his fingers, Athena does the same.

From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2021

In a rescue center, the pangolin slowly wakes and uncurls, sniffing out a nighttime feast of ants’ eggs, then lapping it up with its implausibly long tongue.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 2018

His brush uncurls a reptilian ripple of paint that twines and insinuates itself into a snakepit of color.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sandi felt such tenderness as when a new mother uncurls the tiny fists of a newborn.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez