Word Meanings - UNBEND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 1. To free from flexure; to make, or allow to become, straight; to loosen; as, to unbend a bow. 2. A remit from a strain or from exertion; to set at ease for a time; to relax; as, to unbend the mind from study or care. You do unbend your

Additional info about word: UNBEND

Etym: 1. To free from flexure; to make, or allow to become, straight; to loosen; as, to unbend a bow. 2. A remit from a strain or from exertion; to set at ease for a time; to relax; as, to unbend the mind from study or care. You do unbend your noble strength. Shak. To unfasten, as sails, from the spars or stays to which they are attached for use. To cast loose or untie, as a rope.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNBEND)

• Relax
• Slacken
• loosen
• remit
• abate
• mitigate
• release
• unbend
• relent
• divert
• recreate
• rest
• enervate
• Unstring

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of UNBEND)

• Bind
• constrain
• confine
• shackle
• fetter
• yoke

Related words: (words related to UNBEND)

• RELENT
  1. To become less rigid or hard; to yield; to dissolve; to melt; to deliquesce. He stirred the coals till relente gan The wax again the fire. Chaucer. placed in a cellar will . . . begin to relent. Boyle. When opening buds salute the welcome day,
• UNSTRIPED
  Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
• RELAXANT
  A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
• REMIT
  1. To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits. 2. To send money, as in payment. Addison.
• ABATER
  One who, or that which, abates.
• ABATE
  1. To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates. The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated. Macaulay. 2. To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates. To abate
• RELAXATIVE
  Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• FETTERLESS
  Free from fetters. Marston.
• DIVERTING
  Amusing; entertaining. -- Di*vert"ing*ly, adv. -- Di*vert"ing*ness, n.
• SHACKLE
  1. To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain. To lead him shackled, and exposed to scorn Of gathering crowds, the Britons' boasted chief. J. Philips. 2. Figuratively: To bind or confine
• UNSTRAINED
  1. Not strained; not cleared or purified by straining; as, unstrained oil or milk. 2. Not forced; easy; natural; as, a unstrained deduction or inference. Hakewill.
• LOOSEN
  Etym: 1. 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 rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• UNSTRIATED
  Nonstriated; unstriped.
• RELAX
  1. To become lax, weak, or loose; as, to let one's grasp relax. His knees relax with toil. Pope. 2. To abate in severity; to become less rigorous. In others she relaxed again, And governed with a looser rein. Prior. 3. To remit attention or effort;
• CONFINELESS
  Without limitation or end; boundless. Shak.
• REMITTEE
  One to whom a remittance is sent.
• CONSTRAINED
  Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone.
• ENERVATE
  To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of. A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. Macaulay. And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. Dryden. Syn. -- To weaken;
• SUPREMITY
  Supremacy. Fuller.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• EREMITE
  A hermit. Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats.
• HEREMITICAL
  Of or pertaining to a hermit; solitary; secluded from society. Pope.
• INDIVERTIBLE
  Not to be diverted or turned aside. Lamb.
• UNLOOSEN
  To loosen; to unloose.
• PENTREMITES
  A genus of crinoids belonging to the Blastoidea. They have five petal-like ambulacra.
• DIABATERIAL
  Passing over the borders. Mitford.