unbend
uhn bend
- v straighten up or out; make straight
- v unfasten, as a sail, from a spar or a stay
- v free from flexure
unbend a bow - v make less taut
- v become less tense, rest, or take one's ease
- v release from mental strain, tension, or formality
unbend the mind from absorbing too much information
- That's one of the purposes of my book, to try to unbend the twisted story, the story that has been bent into so many shapes that we can no longer tell fact from fiction.
- Bouche is not one to portray the bellhop or the country maid, but flies straight to the inmost circle of society, where the crustiest tycoons really do unbend, all wives are .
- Not until the final putt had been sunk did Ben unbend.