unbend

Other forms of unbend

past tense or participle

unbent

present participle

unbending·

third person

unbends·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about unbend

What does unbend mean?

unbend means "straighten up or out; make straight". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unbend?

unbend has 2 syllables: un-bend. The stress falls on "bend". In IPA it is /ˌʌnˈbɛnd/.

What is another word for unbend?

Close synonyms include straighten, relax, relax, loosen up, unwind. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of unbend?

The recorded antonyms are bend.

Is unbend a common word?

unbend is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with unbend?

1 word rhymes with unbend. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.