Word.ws English Dictionary

downflexes

downflexes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of downflex.

downflexes is the plural of downflex.

Meaning of downflex

Verb

downflex (third-person singular simple present downflexes, present participle downflexing, simple past and past participle downflexed)

  1. (transitive) To force downward without breaking.
    • Second, the unusually thick (2 to 5 km, Berry and Barr, 1971; Hall, 1973; Grantz et al., 1979) sediment cover in Canada Basin may serve to downflex the underlying oceanic crust and produce a greater than normal state of stress across the adjacent margin which is presently coupled to the seafloor...1982, R. A. Scrutton, Dynamics of Passive Margins, →ISBN, page 22
  2. (intransitive) To bend or stretch downward.
    • The continent edge would downflex as the ocean floor is loaded by a continental-rise prism.1967, Institute for Oceanography, Collected Reprints-national Ocean Survey, page 305

See all 5 meanings of downflex

Questions about downflexes

What is downflexes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Downflexes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of downflex.

Words near downflexes in the dictionary

  1. downfeathers
  2. downfell
  3. downfield
  4. downflex
  5. downflexed
  6. downflexes
  7. downflexing
  8. downflexings
  9. downflood
  10. downflooded
  11. downflooding

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: downflexes (page history and authors); downflex (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “downflexes.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/downflexes. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.