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debend

debend verb: to unbend; to make or allow to become straight from a bent position.

Verb

debend (third-person singular simple present debends, present participle debending, simple past and past participle debent)

  1. (rare, transitive) To unbend; to make or allow to become straight from a bent position.
    • Even a brain surgeon will have trouble removing an 8088 with such a puller without bending the pins a bit. However, they’re fairly malleable and they’ll submit to “debending” with needle-nose pliers a surprising number of times before snapping.1987 October, Kevin Strehlo, “Turbo Wars”, in Business Software, volume 5, number 10, →ISSN, page 42
    • From my personal experience with both typew^([sic]) of cards, US and Belgian made, it seems that the American cards bend much more easily, and they are also very much tougher to 'debend'.1997 February 10, Carl Eric Codere, “Visions: MANGLED CARDS and Rarer Rares.”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet)

Examples of debend in a sentence

  • Cost me about £600 to debend the prop and fit a new shaft and gland.2006 November 1, Will Chapman, “Re: Prop Size”, in uk.rec.waterways (Usenet):
  • The as-prepared LCE-colloidal actuator demonstrated a bending angle (BA) of 1080° in 1.58 s in dichloromethane, accompanied with a successive debending in 0.32 s (Movie S1).2018, Yuanyuan Shang, Junchao Liu, Manbo Zhang, Wanli He, Xinyu Cao, Jingxia Wang, Tomiki Ikeda, Lei Jiang, “Reversible solvent-sensitive...

Forms of debend

third-person singular presentdebends
present participledebending
past participledebent
pastdebent

Origin of debend

From de- + bend.

Questions about debend

What does debend mean?
Debend means to unbend; to make or allow to become straight from a bent position.
How do you use debend in a sentence?
Cost me about £600 to debend the prop and fit a new shaft and gland.
What part of speech is debend?
Debend is a verb.
What is the past tense of debend?
The past tense of debend is debent.

Words near debend in the dictionary

  1. debellation
  2. debelled
  3. debelling
  4. debels
  5. deben
  6. debend
  7. debendification
  8. debending
  9. Debendra
  10. debends
  11. DeBenedictis

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