Synonyms for bending
bend·ing

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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

Matched Categories

1. • Change Of Shape
   • Movement
   • Physical Property

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1. List of paraphrases for "bending":

   flexure, flexion, flexural, curvature, flexing, deflection, deformation

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1. 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.

2. Nadine Gordimer:

   The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

3. International Olympic:

   I don’t know why the governingbodies of many of the differentorganizations are so intent ongetting such a small number ofpeople [trans athletes]…why they’re bending over to thisone person, it’s awoke world gone wild.It doesn’t have to be that way.

4. Ludwig Wittgenstein:

   You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

5. Aesop:

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