Bend Meaning and Definition


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Bend meaning

Word: Bend

How to pronounce: bend

Verb

Definitions:

1. Shape or force (something straight) into a curve or angle.

Example sentences: "The rising wind bent the long grass"

2. (of a person) incline the body downward from the vertical.

Example sentences: "I bent over my plate"

3. Force or be forced to submit.

Example sentences: "They want to bend me to their will"

4. Direct or devote (one's attention or energies) to a task.

Example sentences: "Eric bent all his efforts to persuading them to donate some blankets"

5. Attach (a sail or rope) by means of a knot.

Example sentences: "Sailors were bending sails to the spars"

Noun

Definitions:

1. A curve, especially a sharp one, in a road, river, racecourse, or path.

Example sentences: "The van screeched around a bend"

2. A curved or angled part or form of something.

Example sentences: "Making a bend in the wire"

3. A kind of knot used to join two ropes, or to tie a rope to another object, e.g. a carrick bend.

Example sentences: "Even so it is a very secure bend and can put up with a good deal of strain and movement. It can also be used to tie a bend with thin line."

4. Decompression sickness, especially in divers.

Example sentences: "The disease suffered by divers known as the bends (decompression sickness) is an example of the same phenomenon."

Noun

Definitions:

1. An ordinary in the form of a broad diagonal stripe from top left (dexter chief) to bottom right (sinister base) of a shield or part of one.

Example sentences: "This device of a fountain appears in the arms of the family, where six wells, which form the source of the River Stour appear with a bend on the shield."

Proper noun

Definitions:

1. A city in central Oregon; population 77,181 (est. 2008).


Synonyms:

twist

curl

turning

curvature

curve

river bend

bight

stoop

bend down

tilt

deflect

tip

direct

flexion

crouch

kneel

meander

knee

bowing

bow

fold

crease

crook

hook

turn

sweep

apply

buckle

flexure

flex

deflection

jog

kink

flexes

inflection

incline

inclination

trend

angle

distort

deform

be bent

fasten

attach

arch

arc

round

swerve

wind


Antonyms:

straighten

unbend

straighten out

right


Derivations:

bent

Bender

bending

bendy

bended


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Bend in Other Languages...

Spanish: Doblar

German: Beugen

French: Flexion

Italian: Piegare

Turkish: Bükmek


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