Definitions for unbent

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unbent un·bent

Spelling: [uhn-bent]

IPA: /ʌnˈbɛnt/

Unbent is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in unbent (benntu).

Definitions for unbent

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of unbend.

adjective

1. not bent; unbowed.
2. not having yielded or submitted.

verb (used with object)

1. to straighten from a bent form or position.
2. to release from the strain of formality, intense effort, etc.; relax:
3. to release from tension, as a bow.
4. Nautical. to loose or untie, as a sail or rope. to unfasten from spars or stays, as sails.

verb (used without object)

1. to relax the strictness of formality or ceremony; act in an easy, genial manner:
2. to become unbent; straighten.

Origin of unbent

1475-85; (in defs 2, 3) un-¹ + bent¹

Examples for unbent

Caradoc unbent his dignity and explained what he had observed.

But since the day of the funeral her supple nature had unbent.

Miss West treated me the same way, but unbent more to Mr. Pike.

Even Percy unbent enough to interview one of the Corcoran boys.

But the captain took not the offered hand nor unbent his angry brow.

Nevertheless he unbent in the end to give the chief a job after his heart.

Necessarily he must have or he couldn't have unbent to me as he did.

Then he unbent a little in saying, "That's what's bothering me right now."

There was the advantage of being the only lady, and he unbent more than he ever did at home.

Here the sails were unbent to be repaired, and tents were set up on shore.