Movement

Synonyms for curve

The synonym for curve recorded in this bank is arch, in the sense "form an arch or curve". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · verb · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for curve

archverb, in the sense "form an arch or curve"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day curve is audited in a second meaning.

The senseverbTier 2, TreelineMovement

form an arch or curve

The tracks curve away from the station.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

arch

Same sentence, swapped: The tracks arch away from the station.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where curve stands in the sentence above.

sheer
twist
stoop

Where curve turns up in the game

curve is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where curve is the trap

radiateverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is ray, in the sense "extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center", so curve is there to be ruled out.

Play curve

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so curve reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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One vocabulary, two jobs

curve is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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