OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 2739

bend

/bɛnd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
curva • doblegadura (disused) • doblegamiento • quingo • recodo
A curve.
I hear the train a comin'/It's rolling round the bend
There's a sharp bend in the road ahead.
banda
One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
Perhaps the most celebrated coat of arms is that of Scrope, which is Azure a bend Or. This is the coat over which, from 1385 to 1390, Sir Robert le Grosvenor and Sir Richard le Scr…
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 2738

bend

/bɛnd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
doblarse • pandear
To become curved.
Look at the trees bending in the wind.
agacharse • inclinarse
To stoop.
He bent down to pick up the pieces.
arquearse • enarcarse • inclinarse • prosternarse
To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
Each to his great Father bends.
doblegar • someter
To force to submit.
Of liegers for her sweet, and which she after Except she bend her humour, shall be assured To taste of too.
They bent me to their will.
someterse
To submit.
I am bending to my desire to eat junk food.