flexed

[ flekst ]

adjective

1. bent or contracted, as a part of the body:

   When roller skating, a low posture and slightly flexed knees will help your stability.

2. Heraldry. (of a human leg) depicted as bent at the knee.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of flex ¹.

Other Words From

• un·flexed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of flexed¹

First recorded in 1515–25; flex ¹ + -ed ² for the adjective senses; flex ¹ + -ed ¹ for the verb sense

Example Sentences

Upward-Facing Dog is a chest opener, but the pose is also great for skiers because it stretches the tops of your feet and the front of your ankles, which are in a flexed position in your ski boots.

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Your hips are generally in a flexed position to some degree when skiing, which can make the hip flexors tense up.

From Outside Online

Their legs were raised to their chest in a flexed position, and their body wrapped in a special cloth, perhaps an animal skin.

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Ever obliging, Springsteen then flexed all the right things on a paddle board.

From The Daily Beast

But when I pulled her toward me to comfort her and tell her that I was sorry, she instinctively flexed her muscles to deflect me.

From The Daily Beast

He picked it up and flexed it a bit, as a man might flex a rapier to test its material.

From Project Gutenberg

The "pure scholar" bared a small, skeleton arm, on which a creditable knot of muscle rose as he flexed it.

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Her throat arched and flexed and was restless; and her lovely disparted bosom filled and waned.

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In a few moments he rose, flexed his muscles and peered through the starlit darkness for a way up the cliff behind the beach.

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The chel are large, broad, and flattened, and are so arranged that when flexed they fit closely together across the front.

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Related Words

• tense