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Unbent

adjective
1.
Not bent.  "Trees with straight unbent trunks make the best lumber"
2.
Erect in posture.  Synonyms: straight, unbowed.  "Stood defiantly with unbowed back"


Unbend

verb
(past & past part. unbent; pres. part. unbending)
1.
Straighten up or out; make straight.  Synonym: straighten.
2.
Unfasten, as a sail, from a spar or a stay.
3.
Free from flexure.
4.
Make less taut.  Synonym: relax.
5.
Become less tense, rest, or take one's ease.  Synonyms: decompress, loosen up, relax, slow down, unwind.  "Let's all relax after a hard day's work"
6.
Release from mental strain, tension, or formality.





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"Unbent" Quotes from Famous Books



... a surprise to him one afternoon to find that his wife had so far unbent as to tidy up the parlour. Ornaments had been dusted and polished and the carpet swept. She had even altered the position of the furniture. The table had been pushed against the wall, and the easy- chair, with its back to the window, stood stiffly confronting six or seven assorted ...
— Deep Waters, The Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs
... recently published book of experiences during the war, Mr. Richardson has given a full and graphic account of his interview with the President. Mr. Lincoln unbent himself from his official cares, told two of his best stories, conversed for an hour or more upon the military situation, gave his reasons for the removal of General McClellan, and expressed his hope in our ultimate success. ...
— Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field • Thomas W. Knox
... native cloth in which they were swathed. These were accordingly removed to the storehouse and the young men were made to sit down in front of it. Then the high priest, cheered perhaps by the sight of the offerings, unbent the starched dignity of his demeanour. Skipping from side to side he cried in stridulous tones, "Where are the people of my enclosure? Are they gone to Tongalevu? Are they gone to the deep sea?" He ...
— The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) • Sir James George Frazer
... like steel He put the vision by; Let dusky Indians whine and kneel, An English lad must die. And thus, with eyes that would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave ...
— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8 • Various
... or five dory rodings together, coiled the long length of rope in the dory, unbent the end of their water-laid cable from the anchor, and waited until the wallowing steamer had drifted far enough to leeward to come within the steering-arc of a craft with no canvas; then they cut away the wreck, crowded forward, all ...
— "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea • Morgan Robertson


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