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coiled

 
Adjective coiled has 1 sense
  1. coiled - curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals); "a coiled snake ready to strike"; "the rope lay coiled on the deck"
    Antonyms:
    uncoiled, straight, uncurled, unwound
Verb coil has 3 senses
  1. gyrate, spiral, coil - to wind or move in a spiral course; "the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"; "black smoke coiling up into the sky"; "the young people gyrated on the dance floor"
    --1 is one way to turn
    Derived forms: noun coil2, noun coil1
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Something is ----ing PP
  2. handbuild, hand-build, coil - make without a potter's wheel; "This famous potter hand-builds all of her vessels"
    --2 is one way to shape, form, work, mold, mould, forge
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  3. coil, loop, curl - wind around something in coils or loops
    --3 is one way to wind, wrap, roll, twine
    Antonyms: uncoil
    Derived forms: noun coil2, noun coil1
    Sample sentences:
    They coil the wire around the stick
    The wires coil around the stick
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