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flexed

[ flekst ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

bent or contracted, as a part of the body:
When roller skating, a low posture and slightly flexed knees will help your stability.
Heraldry. (of a human leg) depicted as bent at the knee.

Origin of flexed¹

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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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