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bendable

adj
/ˈbɛndəbəl/

Etymology

From bend + -able.

  1. derived from *bʰendʰ-✻ — “to bind, tie”
  2. inherited from *bandijaną✻ — “to bend”
  3. inherited from *bandijan✻
  4. inherited from bendan — “to bind or bend (a bow), fetter, restrain”
  5. inherited from benden
  6. suffixed as bendable — “bend + -able”

Definitions

  1. Able to be bent or flexed or twisted without breaking.

    • It was quite a shock to find when one stroked her that the China Cat, though alive, was still china, hard, cold, and smooth to the touch, and yet perfectly brisk and absolutely bendable as any flesh and blood cat.
    • The father scorned stooping. Neither his body nor his mind was bendable.
    • When necessity dictates, our laws are as bendable as licorice to our presidents, and if their private conversations had been taped an awful lot of history would be different now.

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