bent

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Động từ

verb

1.
(form of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of bend

Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

bentermore bent

Superlative

bentestmost bent

1.
Folded or dented out of its usual shape.
Đồng nghĩa: crooked
2.
(UK, colloquial)(colloquial, chiefly UK) Corrupt, dishonest.
Đồng nghĩa: crooked
3.
(UK, colloquial, derogatory)(derogatory, colloquial, chiefly UK) Homosexual.
Đồng nghĩa: queer, homophile, homosexual, like that, queer, similisexual, that way
4.
(with on)Determined or insistent; inclined, set.
He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why.
They were bent on mischief.
Đồng nghĩa: hell-bent
5.
(with about) 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.
Đồng nghĩa: butthurt
6.
(Of a person) leading a life of crime.
7.
(slang)(slang, soccer) Inaccurately aimed.
That shot was so bent it left the pitch.
8.
(US, colloquial)(colloquial, chiefly US) Suffering from the bends.
9.
(slang)High from both marijuana and alcohol.
Man, I am so bent right now!

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

bents

1.
An inclination or talent.
He had a natural bent for painting.
the top of one's bent
2.
A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
His mind was of a technical bent.
3.
The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
the bent of a bow
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.
7.
Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
8.
(countable, uncountable)Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
9.
(countable, uncountable)Bentgrass (Agrostis spp.).
10.
(countable, uncountable)A grassy area, grassland.
c. 1500, The Ballad of Chevy Chase Bowmen bickered upon the bent.
11.
(countable, uncountable)Old dried stalks of grasses.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

crooked queerhomophilehomosexuallike thatsimilisexualthat wayhell-bentbutthurtdisposition predilection proclivity propensity

Cùng gốc / liên quan

hell-bentdetermined hell-bent

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English bent-, preterite stem (as in bente, benten, etc.), and Middle English bent, ibent, ybent, past participle forms of Middle English benden (to bend). Equivalent to bend + -t.