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arched
[ahrcht] 
| Main Entry: |
arch
[ahrch]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | curve |
| Synonyms: | arc, bend, bow, bridge, camber, extend, form, hook, hump, hunch, round, shape, span, stretch |
| Main Entry: | bend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | form or cause a curve |
| Synonyms: | angle away, angle off, arch, bow, buckle, camber, careen, circle, contort, crimp, crinkle, crook, crouch, curl, deflect, deform, detour, double, droop, flex, genuflect, hook, incline, incurvate, lean, loop, pervert, round, spiral, stoop, swerve, tilt, turn, twist, veer, verge, warp, waver, wilt, wind, yaw, zigzag |
| Antonyms: | straighten |
| Main Entry: | bent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | curved |
| Synonyms: | angled, arced, arched, arciform, bowed, contorted, crooked, curvilinear, doubled over, drooping, droopy, hooked, humped, hunched, inclined, limp, looped, round, rounded, sinuous, slouchy, slumped, stooped, twined, twisted, warped, wilted |
| Antonyms: | straight |
| Main Entry: | bow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bend over |
| Synonyms: | arch, bob, cower, crook, curtsy, curve, debase, dip, do obeisance, droop, duck, genuflect, hunch, incline, nod, round, stoop |
| Main Entry: | convex |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rounded, curving outward |
| Synonyms: | arched, bent, biconvex, bulged, bulging, bulgy, gibbous, outcurved, protuberant, raised |
| Notes: | convex (from Latin convexus 'arched, vaulted') refers to a surface that curves outward, concave (from Latin concavus 'hollow') to a surface that curves inward |
| Antonyms: | concave, depressed, sinking |
| Main Entry: | curve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bending in a shape or course |
| Synonyms: | arc, arch, bend, bow, buckle, bulge, coil, concave, convex, crook, crumple, curl, deviate, divert, gyrate, hook, incurve, inflect, loop, round, skew, snake, spiral, stoop, swerve, turn, twist, veer, wind, wreathe |
| Antonyms: | straighten |
| Main Entry: | curved |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bowed, bent |
| Synonyms: | S-shaped, arced, arched, arciform, arrondi, biflected, circular, compass, crooked, curly, curvaceous, curvilinear, declinate, elliptical, enbowed, humped, incurvate, incurved, looped, loopy, round, rounded, serpentine, sigmoid, sinuous, skewed, snaky, sweeping, swirly, turned, twisted, twisting, twisty, wreathed |
| Antonyms: | straight |
| Main Entry: | hollow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | empty, hollowed out |
| Synonyms: | alveolate, arched, carved out, cavernous, cleft, concave, cup-shaped, cupped, curved, deep-set, depressed, dimpled, excavated, incurved, indented, infundibular, not solid, notched, pitted, striated, sunken, troughlike, unfilled, vacant, vaulted, void |
| Antonyms: | convex, full, raised, solid |
| Main Entry: | hunch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cower, crouch |
| Synonyms: | arch, bend, bow, curve, draw in, draw together, huddle, hump, lean, scrooch down, squat, stoop, tense |
| Antonyms: | stand, straighten |
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