Synonyms for bends
bends

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1. decompression sickness, aeroembolism, air embolism, gas embolism, caisson disease, bendsnoun

   pain resulting from rapid change in pressure

   Synonyms:
   decompression sickness, caisson disease, gas embolism, aeroembolism, air embolism

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1. • Illness

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1. List of paraphrases for "bends":

   cubits, elbows, curves, bands

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1. bends

   Synonyms:
   Acute decompression sickness, the chokes, decompression sickness

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1. Charles de LEUSSE:

   For him, she bends over backwards. It is origami of the heart. (Pour lui, elle se plie en quatre. - C'est l'origami du cœur)

2. Alberto Esquenazi:

   When you walk, your hip bends at about half of the range that your knee bends— people don’t realize that. Your hip works a lot less than your knee from the perspective of movement … because they’re carrying the whole load of the hip muscles, they have to work harder.

3. R Chamberlain:

   He that rectifies a crooked stick bends it the contrary way, so must he that would reform a vice learn to affect its mere contrary, and in time he shall see the springing blossoms of a happy restoration.

4. Adam Schiff:

   People have lost confidence in its neutrality that justice is blind. Instead they think justice bends to Donald Trump's will.

5. Thomas a Kempis:

   The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.