Unbend: alternatives and connections

Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.

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To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a…

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To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the…

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To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.

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To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.

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To relieve from a strain; to relax.

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To wind off; to loose or separate, as what or convolved; to untwist; to untwine; as, to unwind thread; to unwind a ball of yarn.

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To free from tension; to relax; to loose; as, to unbrace a drum; to unbrace the nerves.

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To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate.

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Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment.

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Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment.

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A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.

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A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.

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The act or process of relaxing, or the state of being relaxed; as, relaxation of the muscles; relaxation of a law.

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The act or process of relaxing, or the state of being relaxed; as, relaxation of the muscles; relaxation of a law.

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To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the…

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To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.

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To wind off; to loose or separate, as what or convolved; to untwist; to untwine; as, to unwind thread; to unwind a ball of yarn.

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To bend; as, to flex the arm.

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To bend; as, to flex the arm.

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One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modi…

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One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modi…

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