Unbent
[ʌn'bɛnt]
Definition
(adj.) not bent; 'looking for an unbent nail'; 'trees with straight unbent trunks make the best lumber' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Unbend
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Examples
- His small hand's fine mechanism, now flaccid and unbent, would in the growth of sinew and muscle, have achieved works of beauty or of strength. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Her frost fell away, her rigidity unbent; she grew smiling and pliant. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The arm Louisa had begun to twine around her neck, unbent itself. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The shaggy eyebrows unbent a little as he rolled the steps toward the shelf where the Johnsonian literature was placed. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The tempest troubled and shook her while it lasted, but it left her elasticity unbent, and her freshness quite unblighted. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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