Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Forming an arch or a curve like that of an arch.
- adjective Provided, made, or covered with an arch.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Made with an arch or curve; covered or spanned with an arch; having the form of an arch; composed of an arch or arches.
- Specifically In heraldry, applied to an ordinary both sides of which are bowed alike in the form of an arch. Also archy, arché, archy-flected, and concaved.—
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Made with an arch or curve; covered with an arch.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Curved . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
arch . (to curve) - verb To have made
curved .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective forming or resembling an arch
- adjective constructed with or in the form of an arch or arches
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Examples
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Brewster caught her expression and arched an eyebrow.
Thunder and Ashes Z.A. Recht 2008
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Raka arched his left eyebrow and glared at Kebron, who stared back and loomed above the slender Trill man.
No Limits Peter David 2003
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Men that have the inside or sole of the foot clumsy and not arched, that is, that walk resting on the entire under-surface of their feet, are prone to roguery.
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But there was pleasure in learning what she liked, and pure male pride in the moment when she cried his name and arched off the bed.
The Vineyard Barbara Delinsky 2000
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But there was pleasure in learning what she liked, and pure male pride in the moment when she cried his name and arched off the bed.
The Vineyard Barbara Delinsky 2000
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He jumped off the bench with unexpected agility; his sword arched expertly through the air and cut through a crossbeam supporting the low ceiling.
Hard to be a god Strugatski, Arkadi & Strugatski, Boris 1973
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A Maple Leaf Canada graphic features the word Canada arched within the shape of a maple leaf.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed James Christie 2011
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"Joker eyebrows" are what people most frequently call the arched eyebrows that are a frequent side effect of Botox injections.
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"Joker eyebrows" are what people most frequently call the arched eyebrows that are a frequent side effect of Botox injections.
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I'd forgotten that her eyebrows kind of arched up like a clown's, like a McDonald's sign, like the wings on my giant welded angels, when she got stoned.
Director's Cut 2005
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