Meaning

9 senses
  1. (transitive)To cook or season with curry powder.

  2. (transitive)To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb.

    kardätschen, striegeln

  3. (transitive)To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.

    nasszurichten

  4. (transitive)To beat, thrash; to drub.

    dreschen

    би́тьbítʹ

  5. (figuratively, transitive)To try to win or gain (favour) by flattering.

  6. (transitive)To perform currying upon.

    schönfinkeln, curryen

  7. (intransitive, obsolete)To scurry; to ride or run hastily

  8. (obsolete, transitive)To cover (a distance); (of a projectile) to traverse (its range).

  9. (obsolete, transitive)To hurry.

More definitions
  • treat by incorporating fat
  • season with a mixture of spices; typical of Indian cooking
  • give a neat appearance to

Examples

104 sentences
  1. Tom likes hot curry.

    Том любить гостре карі. — deniko

    ruТом любит острое карри. — sharptoothed

    deTom mag scharfes Curry. — kolonjano

  2. Do you like fish curry?

    Ти любиш рибні карі? — deniko

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  3. I ate curry rice last night.

    deIch aß letzte Nacht Curryreis. — bonny37

  4. The curry at this restaurant is good.

    deDas Curry in diesem Restaurant ist gut. — bonny37

  5. This curry is too hot to eat.

    deDas Curry ist zu scharf; das kann ich nicht essen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to beat or thrash:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
to groom a horse:
to dress leather:
to beat or thrash:
to perform currying upon:

Origin

1747 (as currey, first published recipe for the dish in English), from Tamil கறி (kaṟi), i

1747 (as currey, first published recipe for the dish in English), from Tamil கறி (kaṟi), influenced by existing Middle English cury (“cooking”), from Middle French cuyre (“to cook”) (whence also cuisine), from Vulgar Latin cocere, from Latin coquere.

From Middle English currayen, from Old French correer (“to prepare”), presumably from Vulgar Latin *conredare, from Latin com- (a form of con- (“with; together”)) + a verb derived from Proto-Germanic *raidaz. More at ready.

Named after American mathematician Haskell Curry.

Possibly derived from currier, a common 16th- to 18th-century form of courier, as if to ride post, to post. Possibly influenced by scurry.

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Forms

curries, currying, curried, curried
Base formcurry · to curry
3rd person singularcurries
Present participlecurrying
Past simplecurried
Past participlecurried

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycurry
he, she, itcurries

Past simpleLesson

all personscurried

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave curried
he, she, ithas curried

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill curry

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

Collocations

3 patterns
  • eat curry rice
  • curry rice
  • ate curry

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
curry — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto