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Flex   /flɛks/   Listen
Flex

noun
1.
The act of flexing.



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"Flex" Quotes from Famous Books



... convolutions. The attack was attended with some hemiplegic weakness on the right side, and altered sensation, and ever after there was a want of freedom and ease both in the gait and in the use of the arm of that side. To my inquiries from time to time how the arm was, the patient would always flex and extend it freely, but nearly always used the expression, "There is a bedevilment in it;" though the handwriting was not much, if at ...
— Memoir of John Lothrop Motley, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... the finger cots should be sewed closed, protecting the fingers from injury and keeping out dirt. While the leather is still soft and damp, place the tips on the fingers and press them home. At the same time flex them strongly at the joints and try to keep them bent there. Such angulation helps not only in holding the bowstring, but keeps the tip from coming off under pressure. When dry, these leather stalls should be numbered according to the finger to which they belong, coated ...
— Hunting with the Bow and Arrow • Saxton Pope



Words linked to "Flex" :   contract, slant, deform, change form, replicate, double up, bow, creep, convolute, crank, double over, lean, shrink, curl up, arch, tip, flaunt, fawn, grovel, draw in, flash, gnarl, swank, show off, cringe, crouch, straighten, curl, indent, curve, twist, stoop, crawl, incurvate, angle, flexible, arc, double, change shape, convolve, dent, move, cower, crook, tilt, ostentate, unbend



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