unbend

🇺🇸 /ˌʌnˈbend/ 🇬🇧 /ˌʌnˈbend/
Frequency
Difficulty
Tags RARE
verb
R

to start to relax and act in a more friendly and less formal way

After a while, she started to unbend and join in the conversation.

R

to straighten something that was bent or to become straight from a bent shape

Carefully unbend the wire to avoid breaking it.

translation

v. to start to relax and act in a more friendly and less formal way; to straighten something that was bent or to become straight from a bent shape

Word Forms

3rd Present unbends
Past unbent
Perfect unbent
Progressive unbending