bent
/bɛnt/ adjective B1- Folded or dented out of its usual shape.
- Determined or insistent; inclined, set. · He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why.· They were bent on mischief.
- Annoyed; out of sorts; having a bee in one's bonnet. · Near-synonym: butthurt· She was bent about "certain kinds of people" having civil rights; she wanted to roll those back.
- 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!
Comparative benter · Superlative bentest
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The two oarsmen bent to their work, and the little boat glided away as rapidly as possible in the midst of the thousand vessels which choke up the narrow way which leads between the two rows of ships from the mouth of the harbor to the Quai d’Orléans.
He had recognized intelligence in the high forehead, courage in the dark eye and bent brow, and frankness in the thick lips that showed a set of pearly teeth.
And Dorothy oiled them and the Scarecrow bent them carefully until they were quite free from rust and as good as new.
They traveled that day and part of the next until they came to the rocky plain where the Tin Woodman lay, all battered and bent.
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