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third-person singular simple present uncurls, present participle uncurling, simple past and past participle uncurled
(transitive, intransitive) To straighten out from being curled up. quotations examples
But when his foe lyes prostrate on the plain,He sheaths his paws, uncurls his angry mane;And, pleas'd with bloudless honours of the day,Walks over, and disdains th' inglorious Prey.
1687, John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther
Then he uncurled his trunk and knocked two of his dear brothers head over heels.
1902, Rudyard Kipling, “The Elephant's Child”, in Just So Stories