curl up's Usage Examples:

, armadillos and human beings curl up into a ball, we make a ball with our fist.

might be too heavy, so she asked the primeval serpent, Aido Hwedo, to curl up beneath the earth and thrust it up in the sky.

several earthstars are hygroscopic: in dry weather the "petals" will dry and curl up around the soft spore sac, protecting it.

Sometimes the aereolae curl up at the edges and continue growing at the edges so that they overlap, which.

Essex teammate, Ray East, because Fletcher's winklepickers had begun to curl up at the toes due to wear.

Larchmont Gazette has said, "While I don't know any teenagers who would curl up with an encyclopedia for a good read, I hear that a lot are reading it.

needed for locomotion over uneven surfaces, and even allows the animal to curl up into a ball when dislodged from rocks.

When threatened, they sometimes curl up or release a noxious liquid that contains large amounts of benzoquinones.

hard, and the corners of the isosceles triangle-shaped bread would often curl up like the pages of a well-thumbed paperback".

They curl up their tails when disturbed, but they are completely harmless.

The pork pieces curl up and are stained red, thus resembling lychee skins, hence the name.

The lower leaves become dry and curl up.

Synonyms:

pull; curl; draw in; draw; flex; attract; bend; pull in;

Antonyms:

repel; straighten; adduct; abduct; push;