bendable
English
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Etymology
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[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈbɛndəbəl/
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Adjective
[edit]bendable (comparative more bendable, superlative most bendable)
- Able to be bent or flexed or twisted without breaking.
- 1912, E. Nesbit, chapter 6, in The Magic World[1]:
- 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.
- 1944, Emily Carr, “Snow”, in The House of All Sorts:
- The father scorned stooping. Neither his body nor his mind was bendable.
- 1974, Arthur Miller, “The Limited Hang-Out: The Dialogues of Richard Nixon as a Drama of the Antihero”, in Steven R. Centola, editor, Echoes Down the Corridor, Viking, published 2000, page 145:
- 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.
- 2017 July 16, Jenny Marc, Katy Scott, “Revolutionary gel is five times stronger than steel”, in CNN[2], archived from the original on 2 July 2025:
- The tough, bendable fabric combines hydrogels — such as those found in contact lenses or jello – with glass fibers. This particular combination maximizes its resilience, making the material 100 times tougher than hydrogels and 25 times tougher than glass fiber fabric, based on the amount of energy needed to destroy it.
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[edit]able to be bent or flexed or twisted without breaking
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Further reading
[edit]- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “bendable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “bendable”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.