UNCOILS Antonyms

• squeeze or press together

• become tight or as if tight

• American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)

• a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)

• lock of hair in the shape of a spiral or curl

• form a curl, curve, or kink

• shape one's body into a curl

• wind around something in coils or loops

• twist or roll into coils or ringlets

• play the Scottish game of curling

• tie or link together

• spin, wind, or twist together

• spin, wind, or twist together

• make lacework by knotting or looping

• make a loop in

• a fabric made by knitting

• a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side

• needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine

• make (textiles) by knitting

• tie or link together

• to gather something into small wrinkles or folds

• a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven

• something jumbled or confused

• force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action

• tangle or complicate

• disarrange or rumple; dishevel

• twist together or entwine into a confusing mass

• an unforeseen development

• an interpretation of a text or action

• any clever maneuver

• the act of rotating rapidly

• a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments

• a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight

• a circular segment of a curve

• a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself

• a jerky pulling movement

• a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair

• social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s

• the act of winding or twisting

• turning or twisting around (in place)

• to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)

• cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form

• turn in the opposite direction

• form into a spiral shape

• form into twists

• extend in curves and turns

• do the twist

• twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates

• practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive

• twist suddenly so as to sprain

• the act of winding or twisting

• air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure

• a tendency or force that influences events

• breath

• empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk

• an indication of potential opportunity

• a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath

• a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus

• to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course

• catch the scent of; get wind of

• extend in curves and turns

• arrange or coil around

• coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem

• form into a wreath

• raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help

• cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person

• a sandwich in which the filling is rolled up in a soft tortilla

• the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped

• arrange or fold as a cover or protection

• arrange or coil around

• enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering

• crash into so as to coil around

• a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops

• a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)

• a transformer that supplies high voltage to spark plugs in a gasoline engine

• a contraceptive device placed inside a woman's womb

• tubing that is wound in a spiral

• reactor consisting of a spiral of insulated wire that introduces inductance into a circuit

• to wind or move in a spiral course

• make without a potter's wheel

• wind around something in coils or loops