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bent
1[ bent ]
adjective
- curved; crooked: a bent stick.
a bent bow;
a bent stick.
to be bent on buying a new car.
Synonyms: intent
- 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: bias, partiality, leaning, penchant, predilection, proclivity, propensity, tendency
- 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/ bɛnt /
noun
- short for bent grass
- a stalk of bent grass
- archaic.any stiff grass or sedge
- dialect.heath or moorland
bent
2/ bɛnt /
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
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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’t know why you’re so bent—I’m just a couple minutes late.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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