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  • 91crook — I. n. 1. Bend, flexure, curvature, turn. 2. Bent staff, shepherd s crook, bishop s crook or staff. 3. Trick, artifice, machination. II. v. a. Bend, curve, incurvate, bow, inflect, make crooked. III. v. n. Bend, curve, become crooked, wind, turn …

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  • 92concave — adjective a small concave area now filled with rainwater Syn: incurvate, curved inward, hollow, depressed, sunken; indented, recessed Ant: convex …

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  • 93hollow — 1. adjective 1) each fiber has a hollow core Syn: empty, void, unfilled, vacant Ant: solid 2) hollow cheeks Syn: sunken, gaunt, deep set, concave …

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  • 94coil — v 1. wind, spiral, curl, intort, twist, twirl, roll, intervolve, convolve, turn; clew, ball; curve, incurvate, sinuate; wrap around, entwine, twine, wreathe; reel, unwind, Naut. worm; rotate, revolve, wheel; interweave, Both Chiefly Brit. wattle …

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  • 95concave — adj 1. incurvate, incurved, sunken, cupped, cup shaped, scyphate, poculiform, calathi form, Bot., Zool. cyanthiform. v 2. hollow, hollow out, scoop, scoop out, gouge out; furrow, groove, trench …

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  • 96crook — n 1. hook, angle, dogleg, hairpin turn; curve, curvature, incurvature, incurvation, bow, arc, turn, twist, tortuosity; bend, bending, flexion, flexure, fold, inflection. 2.Informal. swindler, thief, embezzler, confidence man, U.S. Sl. con man,… …

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  • 97dished — adj concave, incurvate, incurved, cupped, cup shaped, scyphate, poculiform, caluthiform, Bot., Zool. cyanthiform; scooped, scooped out, hollow, hollowed out, sunken, depressed, pushed in …

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  • 98hollow — adj 1. empty, unfilled, hollowed, not solid, not dense, excavated, drained, vacant, blank; depressed, concave, dented, indented, caved in, Inf. stoved in; incurved, incurving, incurvate, cupped, cup shaped, alveolate, alveolated; dipping, sunk,… …

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  • 99inflect — v 1. curve, bend, turn, loop, round, bow, flex; hook, crook; arch, vault; reflect, reflex; incurve, incurvate; retroflex, recurve, decurve, bend back. 2. modulate, intonate, intone, vocalize, phonate; (all of the voice) vary, alter, diversify,… …

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  • 100roll — v 1. revolve, rotate, bowl, trundle, troll, tumble, somersault, somerset, turn, go around; (all of a vessel) pitch, lurch, haw, swing, toss, rock, incline, sway, lean; spin, gyrate, whirl, pivot, pirouette, wheel, reel, swirl, twirl, twiddle. 2.… …

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