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unbent

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un·bent  (n-bnt)
v.
Past tense and past participle of unbend.
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Adj.1.unbentunbent - not bent; "looking for an unbent nail"; "trees with straight unbent trunks make the best lumber"
straight - having no deviations; "straight lines"; "straight roads across the desert"; "straight teeth"; "straight shoulders"
2.unbent - erect in posture; "sit straight"; "stood defiantly with unbowed back"
unbowed, straight
erect, upright, vertical - upright in position or posture; "an erect stature"; "erect flower stalks"; "for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression"; "a column still vertical amid the ruins"; "he sat bolt upright"


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Rostov submissively unbent the corner of his card and, instead of the six thousand he had intended, carefully wrote twenty-one.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Fourth: Stealing unawares upon the whale in the fancied security of the middle of solitary seas, you find him unbent from the vast corpulence of his dignity, and kitten-like, he plays on the ocean as if it were a hearth.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
The officer mentioned a small place on the coast some twelve miles off, where, unsuspicious and unready, she was lying at anchor, with her sails unbent, painting yards and scraping spars.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
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