Meaning

• To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.

  "Don’t bend your knees."

• To become curved.

  "Look at the trees bending in the wind."

• To cause to change direction.

• To change direction.

  "The road bends to the right"

• To be inclined; to direct itself.

• (usually with "down") To stoop.

  "He bent down to pick up the pieces."

• To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.

• To force to submit.

  "They bent me to their will."

• To submit.

  "I am bending to my desire to eat junk food."

• To apply to a task or purpose.

  "He bent the company's resources to gaining market share."

• To apply oneself to a task or purpose.

  "He bent to the goal of gaining market share."

• To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.

• To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.

  "Bend the sail to the yard."

• To smoothly change the pitch of a note.

  "You should bend the G slightly sharp in the next measure."

• To swing the body when rowing.

Meaning

• An inclination or talent.

  "He had a natural bent for painting."

• A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.

  "His mind was of a technical bent."

• The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.

  "the bent of a bow"

• A declivity or slope, as of a hill.

• Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.

• A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.

• Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.

Meaning

• (Of something that is usually straight) folded, dented

• Corrupt, dishonest

• Homosexual.

• Determined or insistent.

  "He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why."

• (Of a person) leading a life of crime.

• Inaccurately aimed

  "That shot was so bent it left the pitch."

• Suffering from the bends

• High from both marijuana and alcohol.

  "Man, I am so bent right now!"