Example: "The curved tusks of a walrus"
To bend; to crook.
Example: "To curve a line"
To cause to swerve from a straight course.
Example: "To curve a ball in pitching it"
To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
Example: "The road curves to the right"
To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
Example: "The teacher will curve the test."
To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
Example: "I was once curved three times by the same woman."