bent.
Folded or dented out of its usual shape.
Meaning & usage
Folded or dented out of its usual shape.
Corrupt, dishonest.
Homosexual.
Determined or insistent; inclined, set.
He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why.
They were bent on mischief.
Annoyed; out of sorts; having a bee in one's bonnet.
She was bent about "certain kinds of people" having civil rights; she wanted to roll those back.
leading a life of crime.
Inaccurately aimed.
That shot was so bent it left the pitch.
Suffering from the bends.
High from both marijuana and alcohol.
Man, I am so bent right now!
Where this word comes from
From Middle English bent-, preterite stem (as in bente, benten, etc.), and Middle English bent, ibent, ybent, past participle forms of Middle English benden (“to bend”). Equivalent to bend + -t.
An inclination or talent.
He had a natural bent for painting.
the top of one's bent
A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
His mind was of a technical bent.
The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
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. Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing. Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English bent-, preterite stem (as in bente, benten, etc.), and Middle English bent, ibent, ybent, past participle forms of Middle English benden (“to bend”). Equivalent to bend + -t.
Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
Bentgrass (Agrostis spp.).
A grassy area, grassland.
Old dried stalks of grasses.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English bent, benet, from Old English *beonot (attested only in place-names and personal names), from Proto-West Germanic *binut (“reed, rush”), of uncertain origin.
simple past and past participle of bend
Where this word comes from
From Middle English bent-, preterite stem (as in bente, benten, etc.), and Middle English bent, ibent, ybent, past participle forms of Middle English benden (“to bend”). Equivalent to bend + -t.
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