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Synonyms for bending
bend·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
bending, bendnoun
movement that causes the formation of a curve
Synonyms:
deflection, bend dexter, twist, flexure, crimp, deflexion, crease, plication, fold, bend, crook, curve, turndeflection, deflexion, bendingnoun
the property of being bent or deflected
Synonyms:
deflection, digression, divagation, deflexion, refraction, bend, diversion, deviation, warpbendingnoun
the act of bending something
Synonyms:
bend, deflexion, deflection
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PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "bending":
flexure, flexion, flexural, curvature, flexing, deflection, deformation
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1007 | turn | |
#5714 | curve | |
#6423 | fold | |
#6506 | bend | |
#7835 | twist | |
#9091 | deviation | |
#15064 | bending | |
#15612 | diversion | |
#15716 | warp | |
#19770 | deformation | |
#21712 | curvature | |
#25335 | crook | |
#29367 | crease | |
#30053 | deflection | |
#34150 | crimp | |
#38069 | refraction | |
#50044 | flexion | |
#54855 | flexing | |
#73052 | flexural | |
#78536 | digression | |
#84870 | plication | |
#86646 | flexure |
How to use bending in a sentence?
It’s very telling that they would be hiring ex-CIA operatives to get inside information, a lot of what they did was either bending the rules or outright breaking the rules.
It's tough work, out bending over, harvesting crops all day, it's very hard to get Americans to do that.
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.
Everybody is bending over backwards, he knows it. It’s just really, really painful when he says something that stupid.
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