bend

bend is a 4-letter English word with 29 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 29 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.
2. transitive verb. To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline.
3. transitive verb. To apply closely or with interest; to direct.
4. transitive verb. To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue.
5. transitive verb. To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor.
6. intransitive verb. To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.
7. intransitive verb. To jut over; to overhang.
8. intransitive verb. To be inclined; to be directed.
9. intransitive verb. To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
10. noun. A turn or deflection from a straight line or from the proper direction or normal position; a curve; a crook; as, a slight bend of the body; a bend in a road.
11. noun. Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
12. noun. A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar, or post.
13. noun. The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt.
14. noun. Hard, indurated clay; bind.
15. noun. same as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends.
16. noun. A band.
17. noun. One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base.
18. noun. curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)

    Synonyms: curve

19. noun. diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left
20. noun. movement that causes the formation of a curve

    Synonyms: bending

21. noun. a town in central Oregon at the eastern foot of the Cascade Range
22. noun. a circular segment of a curve

    "a bend in the road"

    "a crook in the path"

    Synonyms: crook, turn, twist

23. noun. an angular or rounded shape made by folding

    "a fold in the napkin"

    "a crease in his trousers"

    Synonyms: crease, crimp, flexure, fold, plication

24. verb. cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form

    "bend the rod"

    "twist the dough into a braid"

    Synonyms: deform, flex, turn, twist

25. verb. bend a joint

    "flex your wrists"

    "bend your knees"

    Synonyms: flex

26. verb. change direction

    "The road bends"

27. verb. turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest

    Synonyms: deflect

28. verb. form a curve

    "The stick does not bend"

    Synonyms: flex

29. verb. bend one's back forward from the waist on down

    "he crouched down"

    "She bowed before the Queen"

    Synonyms: bow, crouch, stoop

Synonyms

curve, bending, crook, turn, twist, crease, crimp, flexure, fold, plication, deform, flex, deflect, bow, crouch, stoop

Common word forms

bends, bended, bender, bending, bendable

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