bent
Because it is a word with a single syllable, bent is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofbent
- To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
Example: "Don’t bend your knees."
- To become curved.
Example: "Look at the trees bending in the wind."
- To cause to change direction.
- To change direction.
Example: "The road bends to the right"
- To be inclined; to direct itself.
- (usually with "down") To stoop.
Example: "He bent down to pick up the pieces."
- To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
- To force to submit.
Example: "They bent me to their will."
- To submit.
Example: "I am bending to my desire to eat junk food."
- To apply to a task or purpose.
Example: "He bent the company's resources to gaining market share."
- To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
Example: "He bent to the goal of gaining market share."
- To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
- To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
Example: "Bend the sail to the yard."
- To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
Example: "You should bend the G slightly sharp in the next measure."
- To swing the body when rowing.
- An inclination or talent.
Example: "He had a natural bent for painting."
- A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
Example: "His mind was of a technical bent."
- The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
Example: "the bent of a bow"
- A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
- Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
- A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.
- Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
- (Of something that is usually straight) folded, dented
- Corrupt, dishonest
- Homosexual.
- Determined or insistent.
Example: "He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why."
- (Of a person) leading a life of crime.
- Inaccurately aimed
Example: "That shot was so bent it left the pitch."
- Suffering from the bends
- High from both marijuana and alcohol.
Example: "Man, I am so bent right now!"
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