curving
Meaning of curving
verb, gerund or present participle
- form or cause to form a curve.
her mouth curved in a smile
starting with arms outstretched, curve the body sideways
late Middle English: from Latin curvare ‘to bend’, from curvus ‘bent’. The noun dates from the late 17th century.
Information about curving
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of curving
curv-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- curving is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
curving synonyms
Meaning curved:
Meaning shape or force (something straight) into a curve or angle:
Meaning change or cause to change direction:
Meaning follow a course that forms a loop or loops:
Meaning cause (someone) to have difficulty breathing because of exertion or a blow to the stomach:
Meaning (of a river or road) follow a winding course:
Meaning move or go with a smooth up-and-down motion:
Meaning move or extend with the twisting motion of a snake:
Meaning move in a spiral course:
Meaning take or have a winding course:
Meaning arrange (something long and flexible) in a coil:
Meaning move or cause to move in a spiral or curved course:
Meaning move with a curving trajectory:
Meaning form or cause to form the curved shape of an arch:
Meaning play (a stringed instrument or music) using a bow:
Meaning swell or protrude to an incongruous extent:
Meaning (especially of a part of the body) become larger or rounder in size, typically as a result of an accumulation of fluid:
Meaning change the form of (a word) to express a particular grammatical function or attribute, typically tense, mood, person, number, and gender:
Meaning curve inwards:
Meaning past and past participle of bend1:
Meaning constructed with or in the form of an arch or arches:
Meaning the curved sickle shape of the waxing or waning moon:
Meaning bent or curved backwards:
Meaning having a form or edge that smoothly curves in and out:
Meaning forced out of its natural or proper shape; crumpled:
Meaning not arranged or moving in a straight line; winding:
Meaning having many curves and turns:
Meaning move or lie in a winding path or line:
Meaning following a winding course:
Meaning having a smoothly rising and falling form or outline:
Meaning contained by or consisting of a curved line or lines:
Meaning having curves:
Meaning (of a building or room) having an arched roof or roofs:
Meaning having a smooth, curved surface:
Meaning having an outline or surface that curves inwards like the interior of a circle or sphere:
Meaning having an outline or surface curved like the exterior of a circle or sphere:
Meaning covered with or shaped like a rounded vault:
Meaning having a hump or humps; hump-shaped:
Meaning curved like a hook:
Meaning like an eagle:
Meaning shaped like a bow; curved:
Meaning curved like a sickle; hooked:
Meaning a mark (^) placed over a vowel in some languages to indicate contraction, length, or a particular quality:
Meaning bent, arched, or vaulted:
curving antonyms
Meaning extending or moving uniformly in one direction only; without a curve or bend:
Translation of curving
Words that rhyme with curving
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