to bend
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- verb
- /bɛnd/
- Make sure to bend your knees when you lift something heavy.
- bend your knees
- bend your arms
- bend your legs
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Watch on YouTubeYou'll see that this is harder to bend compared to this.
- You'll see that this is harder to bend compared to this.
- So when I asked about does Asus bend their Strix chips for use?
- So, Einstein reasoned, light must also bend when it passes a large mass.
- And so she's never been able to bend her legs since then.
- Like that we're in space-time and it can be bent by gravity.
Examples
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And so she's never been able to bend her legs since then.
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Now you bend to the ball slowly.
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And then I sort of again, bend, bend it down like that.
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You can actually bend this thing like a lot.
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Lie on your back with your knees bent and feet flat on the floor.
Academic text (2015) -
Bend your right knee.
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Sit-ups were performed with knees bent at right angles and hands behind the head, touching the ears.
Academic text (1992) -
Can you bend spoons?
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With five digits that bend and an opposable thumb, the hand is a marvel of dexterity.
Academic text (2008) -
With a quick decisiveness, he moved closer to the bed, bent to examine the rumpled, blood-stained sheet.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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1.0
Move something so it faces a different direction or side
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2.8
To bend into a smooth, rounded shape
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3.7
To bend into a curved shape
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4.9
To bend out of shape when heated or wet
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3.2
To curve under pressure, like a branch or metal
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4.4
To move in a smooth curved path, like lightning across the sky
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6.4
To bend something that is straight
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
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7.9
Talk to someone for a long time about personal things and often annoy them
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
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3.3
An exercise where you bend your knees to lower and raise your body to make your leg muscles stronger
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3.9
A large national park in southwest Texas with mountains, desert, deep canyons, and many wild animals
- Jargon
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8.4
A knot used to join one rope to another, even when they are different thicknesses
- Specialized
A diagonal band on a shield running from the top right to the bottom left as seen by the bearer
- Specialized
A diagonal band on a shield from top right to bottom left often marking a child born outside marriage
How Bent
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bend as a verb comes from an old word meaning 'to curve' or 'to bow', so to bend something is to make it change from straight to curved.