🔀 To bend partly 🔀 Partly flexible

to semiflex

7.9

To bend something a little so it can move slightly

verb

: semiflexionar

He managed to semiflex the metal rod just enough to install it properly.

Examples

Carefully semiflex the plastic strip so it can curve around the edge without breaking.
The technician needed to semiflex the wire to fit it into the narrow channel.
You can semiflex the material to create a better fit.
He semiflexed the metal rod to shape it properly.
The technician needed to semiflex the wire to fit it into the narrow channel.
Carefully semiflex the plastic strip so it can curve around the edge without breaking.
He managed to semiflex the metal rod just enough to install it properly.

Synonyms

to bend

vsto semiflex

268 1.0

To make something curved instead of straight

partially makes something curved rather than fully or completely

to flex

vsto semiflex

17 3.2

To curve under pressure, like a branch or metal

partly curves something, creating only partial flexibility not full curvature

to crook

vsto semiflex

4 5.6

To bend a body part or small object so it curves

partially curves things generally rather than focusing on body parts

Antonyms

to straighten

114 2.5

Make something straight and in the right position

to stiffen

25 3.7

To make or become hard and less able to bend

How Bent

to fold

220 1.0

to bend

268 1.0

to semiflex

7.9

to tilt

147 2.0

to straighten

114 2.5

Surface Forms

semiflex infinitive

semiflexed past

semiflexed past participle

semiflexing present participle

semiflexes third person singular

Morphology

semiflex = flex (transparent) = semi + flex

The verb is also built transparently from semi- + flex, with the sense of making something partly flexible or partly bent.

Etymology

Semiflex is made of semi- 'half' and flex 'to bend', like the flex in flexible. To semiflex something is to make it 'partly bend'—bend it a little so it can give, but not become fully flexible.