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📖 Определения и значения для слова bend

📒 to lean, or make something lean, in a particular direction

  • He bent and kissed her.
  • The doctor told me to avoid bending and stretching.
  • + adv./prep. fields of poppies bending in the wind

📒 if you bend your arm, leg, etc. or if it bends, you move it so that it is no longer straight

  • bend something Bend your knees, keeping your back straight.
  • Lie flat and let your knees bend.

📒 to force something that was straight into an angle or a curve

  • Mark the pipe where you want to bend it.
  • The knives were bent out of shape.
  • He bent the wire into the shape of a square.

📒 to change direction to form a curve or an angle; to make something change direction in this way

  • The road bent sharply to the right.
  • bend something Glass and water both bend light.

📒 to talk to somebody a lot about something, especially about a problem that you have

📒 to think very hard about or put a lot of effort into one particular thing

  • She bent her mind to the problem of escape.

📒 to make a great effort, especially in order to be helpful or fair

  • I've bent over backwards to help him.

📒 to change the rules to suit a particular person or situation

  • Couldn't they just bend the rules and let us in without a ticket?

📒 to say something that is not completely true

  • I wasn’t exactly lying when I said I hadn’t seen her—I was just bending the truth a little.

📒 if you ask for something on bended knee(s), you ask for it in a very anxious and/or humble way (= showing you think you are less important than the person you are asking)

  • I’d go down on bended knee if I thought she’d change her mind.
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