Curry

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To groom (a horse) with a currycomb.
  • v. To prepare (tanned hides) for use, as by soaking or coloring.
  • idiom. curry favor To seek or gain favor by fawning or flattery.
  • n. Curry powder.
  • n. A heavily spiced sauce or relish made with curry powder and eaten with rice, meat, fish, or other food.
  • n. A dish seasoned with curry powder.
  • v. To season (food) with curry.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. One of a family of dishes originating from South Asian cuisine, flavoured by a spiced sauce.
  • n. A spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavoured with curry powder.
  • n. Curry powder
  • v. To cook or season with curry powder.
  • v. To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb
  • v. To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring
  • v. To beat, thrash; to drub
  • v. To try to win or gain (favour) by flattering.
  • v. To perform currying upon.
  • v. To scurry; to ride or run hastily.
  • v. To cover (a distance); (of a projectile) to traverse (its range).
  • v. To hurry.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.
  • v. To dress the hair or coat of (a horse, ox, or the like) with a currycomb and brush; to comb, as a horse, in order to make clean.
  • v. To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons.
  • n. A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices.
  • n. A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry.
  • v. To flavor or cook with curry.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To rub and clean (a horse) with a comb; groom: sometimes used in contempt, with reference to a person.
  • Hence2. To stroke as if to soothe; flatter.
  • To dress or prepare (tanned hides) for use by soaking, skiving, shaving, scouring, coloring, graining, etc.
  • Figuratively, to beat; drub; thrash: as, to curry one's hide.
  • n. A kind of sauce or relish, made of meat, fish, fowl, fruit, eggs, or vegetables, cooked with bruised spices, such as cayenne-pepper, coriander-seed, ginger, garlic, etc., with turmeric, much used in India and elsewhere as a relish or flavoring for boiled rice.
  • To flavor or prepare with curry.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (East Indian cookery) a pungent dish of vegetables or meats flavored with curry powder and usually eaten with rice
  • v. treat by incorporating fat
  • v. season with a mixture of spices; typical of Indian cooking
  • v. give a neat appearance to
  • Verb Form
    curried    curries    currying   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    process    treat    season    flavor    flavour    fancify    beautify    embellish    prettify   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    curried   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    drub    comb    currycomb    groom    Ruby Murray    curry powder   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Murray    Murree    Surrey    Urey    Uri    blurry    burry    currie    flurry    frie   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    chili    paprika    cornstarch    sago    gravy    casserole    cornflour    parsley    horse-radish    clove