Bend

Definition

bend /bend/ v ( pt, pp bent /bent/) ၁။ ေကြးသည္။ ခ်ဳိးသည္။ bend the wire up/down/forwards/back ❍ It's hard to bend an iron bar. ❍ The heat of the fire has bent these old records. ❍ Can you touch your toes without bending your knees? ၂။ ေကြ႕သည္။ ခ်ဳိးသည္။ ေကြးသည္။ ေကာက္သည္။ The road bends (to the right) after a few yards. ❍ As I climbed along it, the branch bent but didn't break. ၃။ ကိုင္းသည္။ ၫြတ္သည္။ တိမ္းသည္။ ေစာင္းသည္။ She bent down and picked it up. ❍ Bend over and touch your toes. ❍ He bent forward to listen to the child. ❍ They (were) bent double, crouching under the table. ❍ His head was bent over a book. n (လမ္း၊ ျမစ္ စသည္) အခ်ဳိး၊ အေကြ႕။ a gentle/sharp bend. ❏ be bent on sth / on doing sth [ PHRV ] (လုပ္ရန္) သႏၷိ႒ာန္ခ်ထားသည္။ စိတ္ပိုင္းျဖတ္ ထားသည္။ He is bent on winning at all costs. See also HELL-BENT ❏ bend sb's ear [ IDM ] ( infml ) (ကိုယ့္ျပႆနာကို) ဖြင့္ေျပာ သည္။ ❏ bend sb to sth [ PHRV ]( fml ) လိုက္ေလ်ာေအာင္ အတင္း အဓမၼျပဳသည္။ She tried to bend the others to her will. ❏ bendy adj ( Brit infml ) (က) အေကြ႕အေကာက္မ်ား ေသာ။ အခ်ဳိးအေကြ႕မ်ားေသာ။ a bendy road. (ခ) ေကြးလြယ္ ေသာ။ ၫြတ္လြယ္ေသာ။ a bendy twig. ❏ on bended knee(s) [ IDM ] ဒူးေထာက္မတတ္ ေတာင္းပန္ သည္။ ❏ round the bend/twist [ IDM ] ( infml ) စိတ္ေပါက္သည္။ His behaviour is driving me round the bend. ❍ He's gone completely round the twist.

Examples

1. He bent and kissed her quickly.
2. [bend forwards] : She bent forwards and whispered in my ear.
3. [bend down] : Helen bent down to pick up her pen.
4. [bend over] : Bend over and touch your toes.
5. [be bent double] : Tom was bent double
6. holding his stomach in pain.
7. The three of them sat there with their heads bent over their books.
8. Tools that will not bend or break under stress
9. [bend under something] : The slim branches were bending under the weight of their fruit.
10. [bend in/out/forwards etc] : The corners of the card bend inwards to form tabs.
11. The path bends sharply just before you enter the wood.
12. This type of pipe can be easily bent by hand.
13. [bend something over/round something etc] : Bend the wires round the battery.
14. [bend something into something] : We bent the strips of clay into strange shapes.
15. His arm was so stiff he couldn’t bend it at all.