| 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: | crook |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bend, angle |
Synonyms: |
bow, curve, flex, fork, hook, meander, notch, round, slither, snake, wind, zigzag |
Antonyms: |
straighten |
| Main Entry: | cross |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | traverse an area |
Synonyms: |
bridge, cruise, cut across, extend over, ford, go across, meet, move across, navigate, overpass, pass over, ply, sail, span, transverse, voyage, zigzag |
Antonyms: |
remain, stay |
| Main Entry: | curl |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bend, loop |
Synonyms: |
buckle, coil, contort, convolute, corkscrew, crimp, crinkle, crisp, crook, curve, entwine, fold, form into ringlets, frizz, indent, kink, lap, meander, ringlet, ripple, roll, scallop, snake, spiral, swirl, turn, twine, twirl, twist, undulate, wave, wind, wreathe, writhe, zigzag |
Antonyms: |
straighten |
| Main Entry: | irregular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bumpy, uneven |
Synonyms: |
aberrant, amorphous, asymmetrical, bent, broken, cockeyed, craggy, crooked, devious, disproportionate, eccentric, elliptic, elliptical, hilly, jagged, lopsided, lumpy, meandering, not uniform, notched, off-balance, off-center, out of proportion, pitted, protuberant, rough, scarred, serrate, serrated, unaligned, unbalanced, unequal, unsymmetrical, variable, wobbly, zigzagged |
Antonyms: |
even, flat, level, smooth |
| Main Entry: | ramble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wander about; travel aimlessly |
Synonyms: |
amble, bat around, be all over the map, branch off, clamber, climb, cruise, depart, digress, divagate, diverge, drift, excurse, extend, fork, gad, gallivant, get sidetracked, knock about, knock around, meander, perambulate, percolate, peregrinate, promenade, range, roam, rove, saunter, scramble, snake, sprangle, sprawl, spread, spread-eagle, straddle, straggle, stray, stroll, trail, traipse, turn, twist, walk, wind, zigzag |
Antonyms: |
be direct, stay |
| Main Entry: | stagger |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | walk falteringly |
Synonyms: |
alternate, careen, dither, falter, halt, hesitate, lurch, overlap, pitch, reel, shake, stammer, step, sway, swing, teeter, titubate, topple, totter, vacillate, waver, wheel, whiffle, wobble, zigzag |
| Main Entry: | totter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move falteringly |
Synonyms: |
blunder, careen, dodder, falter, flounder, hesitate, lurch, quake, quiver, reel, rock, roll, seesaw, shake, shimmy, slide, slip, stagger, stammer, stumble, sway, teeter, topple, tremble, trip, walk unsteadily, waver, weave, wheel, wobble, zigzag |
| Main Entry: | turn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reverse; change course |
Synonyms: |
about-face, aim, alter, alternate, backslide, call off, capsize, change, change position, convert, curve, depart, detour, detract, deviate, digress, direct, diverge, double back, face about, go back, incline, inverse, invert, loop, move, pivot, rechannel, recoil, redirect, regress, relapse, retrace, return, revert, sheer, shift, shunt, shy away, sidetrack, subvert, sway, swerve, swing, swirl, switch, tack, transform, twist, upset, vary, veer, volte-face, wheel, whip, whirl, zigzag |
| Main Entry: | twist |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | curl, spin |
Synonyms: |
coil, contort, corkscrew, encircle, entwine, intertwine, rick, screw, spiral, sprain, squirm, swivel, turn, turn around, twine, twirl, warp, weave, wiggle, wind, wrap, wrap around, wreathe, wrench, wriggle, wring, writhe, zigzag |
Antonyms: |
straighten, uncurl, untwist |
