to flex
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4.1
- verb
- /flɛks/
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flexionar
- He flexes his muscles and then the girls swoon.
- flex your muscles
- flex your arm
- begin to flex
It's like a muscle you flex and then you can use it when you need it.
- It's like a muscle you flex and then you can use it when you need it.
- The patient might imagine, say, flexing their fist or moving their wrist.
- Work out, maintain your muscle strength, do yoga, flex a little bit, touch your toes in the shower if you can.
Examples
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Now flex your toes.
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Can you flex your fingers?
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All right, flex that arm.
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So the more you flex it, the stronger.
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Then you flex certain parts of the body for stability.
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- Just flex your wrist.
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Flex your face one more time.
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Sometimes I'll stand in front of the mirror in my room and flex my muscles.
Fiction book (1993) -
What do you think all these muscles are for?" He flexed his biceps and grinned at her.
Fiction book (1995) -
To demonstrate his strength, he decided to flex his biceps in front of the mirror.
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Compounds
- Specialized
A farm tool with spring teeth on a flexible frame that removes weeds from fields
How Tense
Surface Forms
Etymology
Flex (to tighten a muscle) comes from the same Latin root flectere 'to bend', and people used the word for muscles because tensing makes a body part change shape. So to flex a muscle is to tighten it to show strength or for exercise.