uncurl

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Johnson wrote that he heard his mother’s voice saying to him: “Don’t move. Uncurl your fists, but don’t sit back down because it will look like you’re backing down.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2022

“I don’t want to hear it any more. You sing it very well, but I drat want it again. Uncurl, you idiot, and tell me where you learned to sing.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Far in the sea, against the foaming shore, There stands a rock: the raging billows roar Above his head in storms; but, when 't is clear, Uncurl their ridgy backs, and at his foot appear.

From The Aeneid English by Virgil

Uncurl, un-kurl′, v.t. to loose from curls or ringlets.—v.i. to relax from a curled state.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various