Sekirov Dictionary

bent

/bɛnt/

adjective9

  1. Folded or dented out of its usual shape.
  2. Determined or insistent; inclined, set.
  3. leading a life of crime.
  4. (UK, informal) Corrupt, dishonest.
  5. (informal, offensive) Homosexual.
  6. Annoyed; out of sorts; having a bee in one's bonnet.
  7. (slang) High from both marijuana and alcohol.
  8. (slang) Inaccurately aimed.
  9. (US, informal) Suffering from the bends.

noun13

  1. An inclination or talent.
  2. A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
  3. Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
  4. The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
  5. Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
  6. Bentgrass (Agrostis spp.).
  7. A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.
  8. Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
  9. Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
  10. A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
  11. Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
  12. A grassy area, grassland.
  13. Old dried stalks of grasses.
forms

bents · benter · more bent · bentest · most bent

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