transitive. To bend, cause to bow.

transitive. To cause (a thing) to bend; to force or bring into a curved or angular shape; to inflect, curve, crook. archaic and dialect (as in Sc…

transitive. To crook, bend, or incurve.

transitive. To bend into a curved or arched form; to incurve, arch. Cf. bow, v.1 9, embow, v.1 2.

transitive. To bend into an angular or curved form; to distort from a straight line; to curve.

transitive. To bend, bow; to fold or double (cloth, etc.); to mould or shape (esp. something plastic). Also intransitive. Obsolete.

transitive. To bend inwards; to bend into a curve or angle; hence, simply, to bend, to curve.

transitive. To bend, bow.

To curve, inflect, bend. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To bend, curve, twist, curl.

transitive. To make crooked or curved; to crook, bend.

transitive and intransitive. To bend, wind, fold; to link.

transitive. To bend into a circle or curve; to curve, incurve. Cf. compassed, adj. 3.

transitive. To bring into a curved shape; to bend from a straight line or form; to curve, to crook; now, spec., to bend or curve inwards.

intransitive and transitive. To bend.

transitive. To bend into a curved form, to curve (= incurvate, v. 1); in modern use, To curve or bend (something) inwards.

transitive. To bend or shape (something) so as to form a curve; to cause to take a curved form.

transitive. To bend or wind round.

transitive. To make like a wheel; to give a circular or curved form to. rare.

transitive. To bend, bow, curve. See also curbed, adj.1

transitive (and reflexive). To bend (a thing) into a curve, crook, curl up.

intransitive and transitive. To curve, bend.