Bent is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BENT in dictionary:

VERB:
• The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.
• A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
• A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.
• Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
• A transverse frame of a framed structure.
• Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
NOUN:
• a stiff wiry grass, also BENTGRASS
• a natural talent or inclination
• a stiff grass which is used for lawns and is a component of pasture and hay grasses.
• the stiff flowering stalk of a grass
• any stiff or rushlike grass or sedge.
• a heath or unenclosed pasture.
• A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.
• A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.
• Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.
• a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
• grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens
• an area of grassland unbounded by fences or hedges
• a special way of doing something
• personal inclination, propensity, or aptitude
ADJECTIVE:
• sharply curved or having an angle
• dishonest; corrupt
• stolen.
• (of a man) homosexual.
• determined to do or have
• not straight
• Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.
• Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; -- said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.
• fixed in your purpose
• used of the back and knees; stooped
• of metal e.g.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to curve
• imp. & p. p. of Bend.
• an inclination

Words related to BENT

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Words that contain BENT

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How to use BENT in a sentence

• The gentleman, who was of a stately height, bent over her with an anxious air, while she gazed fixedly upon the monument.
• Along the ditch, poles were driven into the ground close to the edge on each side, and the tops were bent over across the ditch and tied together.
• The figure seemed to search its pockets and then bent over to fix a shovel-blade on the end of a stout cane.
• Taken by surprise, the priest was not master of himself, but he soon recovered, and covering his face with a handkerchief again bent over to listen.
• Lowering looks however were bent upon him from every side of the table.
• Pistol in hand, he bent, nearer and nearer, striving to see the face of the prostrate man.
• Then he bent forward and subjected it to a passionate and relentless scrutiny.
• The general course of the stream was a trifle east of north, but at short intervals it bent and curved literally toward every point of the compass.
• A revolution had broken out among this turbulent people, and, in his endeavors to stem it, Governor Bent was frustrated.
• With or without light, she was still bent on making Miss Jethro explain herself.
• With a sob she bent her face and kissed him and was gone like a ghost back into the darkness.
• Then, seeing the charming face bent above him, he softened visibly.
• The crowd, heavy-eyed, sodden, wondering, bent to him as the torch-fires bent to the breath of summer.
• For soon a wind came up that tossed the tree tops and bent even the bushes.
• Reddy Ray bent over the row of bats and singled out his own.
• Jack bent over her and gave her one kiss, for she was a lovely picthur.
• She bent her head till the fingers of the lily-petals touched her cheek.
• He took the bent axle to the blacksmith, and returned to the hotel.
• But thirty brows, inflamed and stern, Soon bent on him their gaze, While calm he gazed, as if to learn Who chief deserved his praise.
• Abbey has told us that you are bent on doing the Tribune and its staff a great injustice.
• In it were a gray feather off of an apparently very nice chicken, a very old and rusty pin bent in two places and a flat little black seed I had never before beheld.
• The bows, in which a small, withered old man bent double over the oars, cocked up on end.
• A moment later, with a quick and sudden motion he bent his arms, bringing toward each other the two men he held as captives.
• Fleta went up to the former, and crossing her arms, bent her head.
• Miss Mackenzie bent forward and made some notes in a little black book which she held upon her lap.

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