Antonyms for bendingbend·ing

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1. • Change Of Shape
   • Movement
   • Physical Property

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1. bending, bendnoun

   movement that causes the formation of a curve

   Synonyms:
   deflection, bend dexter, twist, flexure, crimp, deflexion, crease, plication, fold, bend, crook, curve, turn

2. deflection, deflexion, bendingnoun

   the property of being bent or deflected

   Synonyms:
   deflection, digression, divagation, deflexion, refraction, bend, diversion, deviation, warp

3. bendingnoun

   the act of bending something

   Synonyms:
   bend, deflexion, deflection

How to use bending in a sentence?

1. Dan Wilkins:

   The reason we can see that is because that black hole is warping space, bending light and twisting magnetic fields around itself.

2. Mariana Fulger:

   Every existence is a bending in the space-time of general existence and can sometimes become so dense that it does not resonate with anything from outside.

3. Guy Houlsby:

   The original Darrieus turbine has blades that are parallel to the axis of rotation, and that means that the loads in the blades are carried entirely by bending of the blades. That results in very high stresses, the re-design that we've done changes the blades so that they form this triangulated structure, and that's a very stiff and very strong structural form. And that means that the loads in the blades are principally carried by axial forces and that means that the stresses are much lower.

4. Asmi Fathelbab:

   I ran the youth program in the building and with that comes bending down and talking to small children. You have no idea what it was like to stand up and feel that behind you. I couldn’t scream because I didn’t want to scare the child in front of me. It left me shaking.

5. Aesop:

   The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

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