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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

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.

(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.

Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.

A grassy area, grassland.

The old dried stalks of grasses.