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1. A relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
   - set
    
2. Grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens
   - bent grass, bent-grass
    
3. An area of grassland unbounded by fences or hedges
    
4. A special way of doing something
   "he had a bent for it"
   - knack, hang

1. Fixed in your purpose
   "bent on going to the theatre"
   - bent on, dead set, out to
    
2. Used of the back and knees; stooped
   "with bent back"
   - bended
    
3. Of metal e.g.
   "bent nails"
   - crumpled, dented
    
4. [Brit] Not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
   - crooked, corrupt
    
5. [Brit, vulgar] Homosexual

1. Form a curve
   "The stick does not bend"
   - flex
    
2. Change direction
   "The road bends"
    
3. Cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form
   "bend the rod"
   - flex, deform, twist, turn
    
4. Bend one's back forward from the waist on down
   - crouch, stoop, bow
    
5. Turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest
   - deflect, turn away
    
6. Bend a joint
   "bend your knees"
   - flex

Derived forms: bents

See also: bendable, bender, damaged, dishonest, dishonorable [US], dishonourable [Brit, Cdn], honestness, honesty, resolute, sneaky, underhand, underhanded, unerect, unlawful

Type of: change form, change shape, deform, disposition, endowment, gift, grass, grassland, inclination, move, natural endowment, talent, tendency, turn

Antonym: straighten, unbend

Part of: Agrostis, genus Agrostis

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