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单词 bend
释义

bendverb

uk/bend/us/bend/bent, bent

bend verb (CURVE)

B2 [ I or T ] to (cause to) curve:

The road bends to the left after the traffic lights.

B2 to move your body or part of your body so that it is not straight:

I bent down and picked up the coins lying on the road.
Now, bend forward/over and touch your toes!
Make sure you bend your knees when you're picking up heavy objects.
After her fall she complained that she couldn't bend her leg properly.
on bended knee

in a position in which the knee of one leg is touching the floor:

He went down on bended knee to ask her to marry him.

More examples

  • Light rays bend as they pass from air to water.
  • You'll snap that ruler if you bend it too far.
  • the point where the road bends
  • His new trousers ripped when he bent down.
  • I bent down and picked up the coins lying on the road.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Bending, twisting and curving

  • bent
  • bowed
  • buckle
  • contort
  • convoluted
  • crook
  • flexure
  • fluted
  • intertwine
  • interweave
  • matted
  • meander
  • meandering
  • sinuous
  • twiddly
  • twine
  • twisted
  • twisty
  • warp
  • wring

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Sitting and standing

Idiom(s)

bend sb's ear
bend the law/rules

Phrasal verb(s)

bend to sth

bendnoun

uk/bend/us/bend/

bend noun (CURVE)

B2 [ C ] a curved part of something:

There's a bend in the pipe so you can't see from one end to the other.
The car came around the bend on the wrong side of the road.

[ U ] in football, the curve in which a ball moves when it has been kicked in a particular way:

Good players can put bend on the ball.

More examples

  • He came off the road while driving his car around a bend at high speed .
  • The river broadens out around the next bend.
  • Be careful when you're cycling because there are several sharp bends along the route.
  • The children are practising writing letters with lots of bends in them, like 's' and 'm'.
  • Why does your cat have that funny little bend in her tail?

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Geometry: bends, loops & curves

  • anfractuous
  • arc
  • coil
  • curve
  • dogleg
  • helix
  • hyperbola
  • kink
  • loop
  • meander
  • parabola
  • peaked
  • spiral
  • swoosh
  • trajectory
  • turn
  • twist
  • whirl
  • whorl
  • wraparound

bend noun (ILLNESS)

the bends [ plural ]

a serious medical condition that divers (= people who swim underwater) get when they come up to the surface of the water too quickly

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Disorders & diseases of the heart & blood

  • acquired agammaglobulinemia
  • agammaglobulinemia
  • agnogenic myeloid metaplasia
  • anemic
  • angina
  • blood poisoning
  • deep vein thrombosis
  • dilated cardiomyopathy
  • Ebstein's anomaly
  • economy-class syndrome
  • Eisenmenger syndrome
  • endocarditis
  • haemorrhage
  • hypothermia
  • leukaemia
  • paediatric thrombocytopenia
  • patent ductus arteriosus
  • pediatric thrombocytopenia
  • pericarditis
  • peripheral vascular disease

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Idiom(s)

drive sb around the bend
around the bend
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