Definition of bend

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Bend (v. i.) To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.

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Crook :: Crook (v. i.) To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.
Cope :: Cope (v. i.) To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.
Unbend :: Unbend (v. t.) To free from flexure; to make, or allow to become, straight; to loosen; as, to unbend a bow..
Cringe :: Cringe (v. t.) To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn.
Arcuation :: Arcuation (n.) The act of bending or curving; incurvation; the state of being bent; crookedness.
Bow :: Bow (v. i.) To bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or submission; -- often with down..
Embow :: Embow (v. t.) To bend like a bow; to curve.
Wind :: Wind (n.) The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding.
Bender :: Bender (n.) A sixpence.
Cower :: Cower (v. i.) To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear..
Lean :: Lean (v. i.) To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as, she leaned out at the window; a leaning column..
Hinge :: Hinge (v. t.) To bend.
Shrink :: Shrink (v. i.) To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted..
Bendy :: Bendy (a.) Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge.
Compass :: Compass (v. t.) To curve; to bend into a circular form.
Bender :: Bender (n.) A drunken spree.
Curvature :: Curvature (n.) The act of curving, or the state of being bent or curved; a curving or bending, normal or abnormal, as of a line or surface from a rectilinear direction; a bend; a curve..
Snotter :: Snotter (n.) A rope going over a yardarm, used to bend a tripping line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war; also, the short line supporting the heel of the sprit in a small boat..
Lap :: Lap (n.) To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a piece of cloth..
Bow :: Bow (v. t.) To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline..
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