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round the bend

round the bend prepositional phrase: crazy, mad or insane.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Crazy, mad or insane.
    • The sixth phone call drove him round the bend.
    • You're bloody berko, Koko! And who's driving? Manny? He's more round the bend than you!2005, Henrik Moller, Renaissance, page 263
  2. (idiomatic) Close to or in close proximity to another location.
    • Down the hill and round the bends, Thomas and his friends.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see round, bend.
    • I had travelled one morning down to Aylesbury, and had left my train, and was about to cross the footbridge, when I heard the imperious whistle of a "B1." I paused, and round the bend came the "Master Cutler" with its engine working absolutely flat out.1955 April, W. J. Alcock, “Unforgettable Moments”, in Railway Magazine, page 271

round the bend meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

round the bend in Bengali

পাগল, উন্মাদ

round the bend in Malayalam

mad, mentally ill, insane
ഭ്രാന്തുള്ള, ഭ്രാന്ത, ദൃപ്ര, ദൃപ്ത, ഭൗത, ചിത്തഭ്രമമുള്ള

Forms of round the bend

alternative formaround the bend

Questions about round the bend

What does round the bend mean?
Round the bend means crazy, mad or insane.
What is round the bend in Bengali?
Round the bend in Bengali is পাগল, উন্মাদ. See Round the bend meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is round the bend?
Round the bend is a prepositional phrase.

Words near round the bend in the dictionary

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  2. round stingray
  3. Round Swamp
  4. round table
  5. round tables
  6. round the bend
  7. round the clock
  8. round the corner
  9. round the Horn
  10. round the twist
  11. round the wicket

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Adapted from Wiktionary: round the bend (page history and authors); round the bend (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); round the bend (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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.

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