Arching and Hooking

verb

• Form an arch or curve.
  • usage: "her back arches"; "her hips curve nicely"
  • synonyms: arch, curve, arc

adjective

• Forming or resembling an arch.
  • usage: "an arched ceiling"
  • synonyms: arced, arched, arciform, arcuate, bowed

• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Arch.
• (n.) Hogging; -- opposed to sagging.
• (n.) The arched part of a structure.

noun

• A golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer.
  • usage: "he took lessons to cure his hooking"
  • synonyms: hook, draw

verb

• Fasten with a hook.
  • synonyms: hook
• Rip off; ask an unreasonable price.
  • synonyms: overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hook
• Make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle.
  • usage: "She sat there crocheting all day"
  • synonyms: crochet, hook
• Hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left.
  • synonyms: hook
• Take by theft.
  • usage: "Someone snitched my wallet"
  • synonyms: hook, snitch, thieve, cop, knock off, glom
• Make off with belongings of others.
  • synonyms: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift
• Hit with a hook.
  • usage: "His opponent hooked him badly"
  • synonyms: hook
• Catch with a hook.
  • usage: "hook a fish"
  • synonyms: hook
• To cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug.
  • synonyms: addict, hook
• Secure with the foot.
  • usage: "hook the ball"
  • synonyms: hook
• Entice and trap.
  • usage: "The car salesman had snared three potential customers"
  • synonyms: hook, snare
• Approach with an offer of sexual favors.
  • usage: "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"
  • synonyms: hook, solicit, accost