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How to pronounce unbend in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms relax
Type of loose, loosen
Has types unbrace
Type Words
Synonyms decompress, loosen up, relax, slow down, unwind
Type of change state, turn
Has types sit back, vegetate, vege out, take it easy
Type Words
Synonyms straighten
Type of change posture
Type Words
Type of straighten out, straighten


unbend a bow.
Type Words
Type of unlax, unstrain, unwind, relax, make relaxed, loosen up


unbend the mind from absorbing too much information.
Type Words
Type of unfasten

Examples of unbend

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He will need to unbend if the Concertacion's electoral fortunes are to brighten.
From the economist.com
Upon waking each morning, he had to physically unbend his arm with his free hand.
From the boston.com
Once you unbend and become straight again, you turn to your opposite side and repeat.
From the en.wikipedia.org
He did unbend enough toward the campaign's end to drink with workers in pubs and buss young girls.
From the time.com
Julie Eisenhower got her father to unbend a bit and come out with her mother to pose for pictures.
From the time.com
Can she unbend and strut her way through this glitzy shindig?
From the orlandosentinel.com
Thumb pressure put it right, but a few bend-unbend cycles seem likely to fatigue the hook enough to break.
From the usatoday.com
Few Germans, except among family and close friends, ever unbend enough to call each other by their first name.
From the time.com
Yet, like Geneva, I unbend for Escalade weekend.
From the smh.com.au
More examples
  • Straighten: straighten up or out; make straight
  • Unfasten, as a sail, from a spar or a stay
  • Free from flexure; "unbend a bow"
  • Relax: make less taut; "relax the tension on the rope"
  • Relax: become less tense, rest, or take one's ease; "He relaxed in the hot tub"; "Let's all relax after a hard day's work"
  • Release from mental strain, tension, or formality; "unbend the mind from absorbing too much information"
  • (unbending) inflexible: incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances; "a rigid disciplinarian"; "an inflexible law"; "an unbending will to dominate"
  • (unbent) not bent; "looking for an unbent nail"; "trees with straight unbent trunks make the best lumber"
  • B: to take the sails off from their yards and stays. To cast loose the anchor from the cable. To untie two ropes.