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Definition bent

Etymology 1

From bend.

Verb

bent

  1. simple past tense and past participle of bend
Adjective

bent (comparative benter or more bent, superlative bentest or most bent)

  1. (Of something that is usually straight) folded, dented
  2. (colloquial, chiefly Britain) corrupt, dishonest
  3. (derogatory, colloquial, chiefly Britain) Homosexual.
  4. Determined or insistent.
  5. (Of a person) leading a life of crime.
  6. (slang, soccer) inaccurately aimed
  7. (colloquial, chiefly US) Suffering from the bends
  8. (slang) High from both marijuana and alcohol.
Noun

bent (plural bents)

  1. An inclination or talent.
  2. A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
  3. The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
  4. A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
  5. Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
  6. (carpentry) A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.
    1. Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
    2. Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
  7. Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.

Etymology 2

From Middle English bent, benet, from Old English *beonet- (attested only in place-names and personal names), from Proto-Germanic *binutaz (“reed, rush”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Old Saxon binitin (“made of reeds”), Old High German binuz (modern German Binse (“rush, reed”)).

Noun

bent (countable and uncountable, plural bents)

  1. Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
  2. A grassy area, grassland.
  3. The old dried stalks of grasses.

Results 338 Words with the letters BENT

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ABSENT 10
BANNET 11
BANTER 10
BATMEN 13
BATTEN 10
BEATEN 10
BEKNOT 14
BENNET 11
BETONS 10
BETONY 12
BEZANT 19
BINATE 10
BITTEN 10
BONNET 11
BRENTS 10
BRUNET 11
BUNTED 12
BUNTER 11
BURNET 11
BUTANE 11
BUTENE 11
ENTOMB 13
HENBIT 12
SUBNET 11
UNBELT 12
UNBENT 12
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BENT 8
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BEN 7
BET 6
NEB 7
NET 4
TEN 4
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BE 5
EN 3
ET 2
NE 3

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