v. [UN-2 3.] trans. and intr. To uncurve; to straighten.

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1598.  Florio, Disarcare, to vnbend, to vnarche.

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1885.  Jefferies, Open Air (1890), 234. His flexible back bends and undulates, arches and unarches, rises and falls as a wave rises and rolls on.

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