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bent

Phonetics

/bɛnt/

verb

To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
Example: Don’t bend your knees.
To become curved.
Example: Look at the trees bending in the wind.
To cause to change direction.
To change direction.
Example: The road bends to the right
To be inclined; to direct itself.
(usually with "down") To stoop.
Example: He bent down to pick up the pieces.
To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
To force to submit.
Example: They bent me to their will.
To submit.
Example: I am bending to my desire to eat junk food.
To apply to a task or purpose.
Example: He bent the company's resources to gaining market share.
To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
Example: He bent to the goal of gaining market share.
To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
Example: Bend the sail to the yard.
To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
Example: You should bend the G slightly sharp in the next measure.
To swing the body when rowing.

noun

An inclination or talent.
Example: He had a natural bent for painting.
A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
Example: His mind was of a technical bent.
The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
Example: the bent of a bow
A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.
Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.

adjective

(Of something that is usually straight) folded, dented
Corrupt, dishonest
Homosexual.
Determined or insistent.
Example: He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why.
(Of a person) leading a life of crime.
Inaccurately aimed
Example: That shot was so bent it left the pitch.
Suffering from the bends
High from both marijuana and alcohol.
Example: Man, I am so bent right now!

Phonetics

/bɛnt/

noun