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bendingadjective marked by a long series of irregular curvesthe river takes a long bending path to the sea crazy, crooked, curled, curling, curved, curving, curvy, devious, serpentine, sinuous, tortuous, twisted, twisting, winding, windy zigzag, zigzaggingcircling, coiled, coiling, corkscrew, looping, spiral, spiraling(or spiralling), swirlingcircuitous, indirect, roundaboutmeandering, rambling, wanderingirregular, jagged, uneven straight, straightaway direct, linear bendingverbpresent participle of bendto cause to turn away from a straight lineshe bent the blade of the knife when she got it jammed in the drawer arching, bowing, crooking, curving, hooking, swerving arcing, roundingincurvating, incurving, inflecting, reflectingdeflecting, divertingentwining, kinking, swirling, turning, twining, twisting, veering, warpingcoiling, curling, enrolling, looping, spiraling(or spiralling)denting, dimplingmeandering, waving, weaving, windingdeclining, inclining, sloping straightening, unbending, uncurling to occupy (oneself) diligently or with close attentionbent herself to the task for the rest of the day addressing, applying, buckling, devoting, giving readdressing, reapplyingknuckling down, setting (to), settling (down)busying, committing, concerning, engaging, involvingexerting, exhausting, putting out, spending, straining, stressing, taxing, troubling, wearing outcarrying on, pitching in, plunging (in)grinding, humping, hustling, pegging (away), plodding, plowing, plugging (away), working getting cracking, getting one's act together, getting with it, turning one's hand(or turning a hand) dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, fiddling (around), fooling around, idling, messing around, monkeying (around), playing, pottering (around), puttering (around), trifling to point or turn (something) toward a target or goalbent all of his efforts toward making his first documentary film aiming, casting, directing, heading, holding, leveling(or levelling), pinpointing, setting, training sightingbearing, facingconcentrating, focusing(also focussing)inclining, orienting, steering averting, curving, deflecting, detouring, diverting, rechanneling, shunting, sidetracking to turn away from a straight line or coursethe stream bends slightly to the east arching, arcing, bowing, crooking, curving, falling off, hooking, rounding, sweeping, swerving, trending, wheeling circling, coiling, curlicuing, curling, looping, spiraling(or spiralling)turning, twisting, windingdeviating, veering straightening to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning ofattorneys bending the facts to put their client in the most favorable light coloring, cooking, distorting, falsifying, fudging, garbling, misinterpreting, misrelating, misrepresenting, misstating, perverting, slanting, twisting, warping misdescribing, misspeaking, mistranslatingbelying, camouflaging, disguising, dissembling, glossing (over), masking, veiling, whitewashingbowdlerizing, censoringcomplicating, confounding, confusing, mistaking, mixing (up)mystifying, obscuringequivocating, fibbing, lying, paltering, prevaricating clarifying, clearing (up), explaining, illuminating, illustrating, interpreting, spelling outdeciphering to cause (something) to hold to anotherbend a leash to the dog's collar affixing, attaching, fastening, fixing adhering, bolting, cinching, clamping, clasping, clenching, clinching, clipping, gluing(also glueing), hanging, harnessing, hasping, lacing, lashing, latching, nailing, pasting, pinning, plastering, riveting, screwing, shackling, stapling, sticking, strapping, tacking, tackling, toggling, tying(or tieing), yokingcoapting, connecting, joining, linking, unitingreaffixing, reattaching, refastening, refixing, resecuringbattening, belaying, buttoning, doing up detaching, undoing, unfastening, unhooking breaking up, disconnecting, disjoining, disjointing, dissevering, dissociating, disuniting, dividing, divorcing, parting, separating, severing, splitting, sundering, uncoupling, unlinking, unyokingloosening, loosingunbinding, unfixing, unlashing, untying(or untieing) |