bending

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  1. The act of causing to bend, or the state of being bent or deflected; a deflection. If matter that will not yield at each bend is deposited while the bendings are continually taking place, the bendings will maintain certain places of discontinuity in the deposit. H. Spencer, Prin. of Biol., § 257.
  2. Decoration (of clothes) with stripes or horizontal bands. Chaucer.

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  • L.A. It's almost mind-bending, a good nam kaow tod, the rustic Thai salad of deep-fried rice grains ... —  LA Weekly | Complete Issue
  • Prince has long been out front, whether he was scrawling "slave" on his face with eyeliner; changing his name to some sort of gender-bending, amorphous symbol; or creating an Internet-only musician-to-fan paradigm back when the majority of his peers still firmly believed the old major-label model was still the only avenue worth pursuing. —  The Buffalo News: Home
  • More from Robert Cashill jots down notes on the films he's caught at the festival. acquarello finds "a bold, provocative, mind-bending, and fiercely intelligent exposition into the nature of terrorism, the demystification of the subconscious, and the psychology of fetishism and objectification." —  GreenCine Daily
  • Are you bending, your gonna love your fisting, I'm fukin sure. —  Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors Hollywood gossip blog from Perez Hilton
  • There will lots of audience participation, trivia-bending, and prizes for the best cosplayers! —  COMIXTALK
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bending:   bends ·  bend ·  bent
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Verbal noun of bend, v.
  2. from bend, n., + -ing.
 

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