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bent
1[ bent ]
adjective
- curved; crooked: a bent stick.
a bent bow;
a bent stick.
Synonyms: ,
to be bent on buying a new car.
Synonyms:
- Chiefly British Slang.
- morally crooked; corrupt.
- stolen:
bent merchandise.
- unbalanced or crazy; irrational:
Man, your take on things is so bent I can hardly follow it.
- Chiefly British Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. gay ( def 1 ).
noun
- direction taken, as by one's interests; inclination:
a bent for painting.
Synonyms: , , , , , , ,
- capacity of endurance:
to work at the top of one's bent.
- Civil Engineering. a transverse frame, as of a bridge or an aqueduct, designed to support either vertical or horizontal loads.
- Archaic. bent state or form; curvature.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of bend 1.
bent
2[ bent ]
noun
- a stalk of bent grass.
- Scot., North England. (formerly) any stiff grass or sedge.
- British Dialect. a moor; heath; tract of uncultivated, grassy land, used as a pasture or hunting preserve.
bent
1/ 产蓻苍迟 /
adjective
- not straight; curved
- foll by on fixed (on a course of action); resolved (to); determined (to)
- slang.
- dishonest; corrupt
- (of goods) stolen
- crazy; mad
- homosexual
noun
- personal inclination, propensity, or aptitude
- capacity of endurance (esp in the phrase to the top of one's bent )
- civil engineering a framework placed across a structure to stiffen it
bent
2/ 产蓻苍迟 /
noun
- short for bent grass
- a stalk of bent grass
- archaic.any stiff grass or sedge
- dialect.heath or moorland
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of bent1
Origin of bent2
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of bent1
Idioms and Phrases
- bent (out of shape), Informal. angry or upset: Also bent up.
I like that you can share your thoughts on stuff and not get bent out of shape if I disagree.
I don鈥檛 know why you鈥檙e so bent鈥擨鈥檓 just a couple minutes late.
Example Sentences
And in next year's mid-term congressional elections, those majorities could be replaced by hostile Democrats bent on investigating the administration and curtailing his authority.
We arrived at fields where four rockets had landed, children were playing with the bent metal and shrapnel from the strikes.
"This is a choice between a Conservative Party that stood up for common sense and a Labour Party that bent the knee to every passing fad," she said.
Instead, Texas entered a rebuild, giving Woodward鈥檚 job a much more developmentally focused bent.
In the 120th minute, substitute Kobbie Mainoo cut inside his man and bent a stunning, curling strike into the bottom far corner.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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