English > flex: 6 senses > verb 3, motion| Meaning | form a curve. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
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| Model | The glass tubes flex |
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| Synonym | bend |
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| Entailed by | hunch, hump, hunch forward, hunch over | Round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward |
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| Narrower | arch, curve, arc | form an arch or curve |
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| crook, curve | bend or cause to bend |
| crouch, stoop, bend, bow | bend one's back forward from the waist on down |
| curl up, curl, draw in | shape one's body into a curl |
| double over, double, double up | Bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain |
| fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel | show submission or fear |
| incurvate | bend inwards |
| lean, tilt, tip, slant, angle | To incline or bend from a vertical position |
| retroflex, replicate | bend or turn backward |
| Broader | change shape, change form, deform | assume a different shape or form |
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| Opposite | straighten, unbend | straighten up or out |
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| Spanish | doblarse, doblar, doblegar, flexionar, torcer |
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| Catalan | doblegar, enguerxir, flexionar, torçar, tòrcer |
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| Nouns | flexure | act of bending a joint |
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| flexure | an angular or rounded shape made by folding |
English > flex: 6 senses > verb 5, contact| Meaning | Cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked / crooked or angular form. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
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| Synonyms | bend, deform, twist, turn |
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| Entailed by | curl, curve, kink | form a curl, curve, or kink |
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| Narrower | convolve, convolute | curl, wind, or twist together |
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| crank | bend into the shape of a crank |
| gnarl | Twist into a state of deformity |
| incurvate | Cause to curve / curve inward |
| indent, dent | make a depression into |
| Broader | change shape, change form, deform | assume a different shape or form |
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| Opposite | unbend | Free from flexure |
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| Spanish | curvar, doblar, girar, rotar, torcer |
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| Catalan | corbar, doblar, doblegar, encorbar, enroscar, girar, rotar, tòrçar, torçar, tòrcer, trenar |
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| Adjectives | flexible | able to flex |
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