bendverb
uk/bend/us/bend/bent, bentbend verb (CURVE)
B2 [ I or T ] to (cause to) curve:
B2 to move your body or part of your body so that it is not straight:
in a position in which the knee of one leg is touching the floor:
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- 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.
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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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bendnoun
uk/bend/us/bend/bend noun (CURVE)
B2 [ C ] a curved part of something:
[ U ] in football, the curve in which a ball moves when it has been kicked in a particular way:
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)
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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