bend – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of bend

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to bend
Participle: bent; bended
Gerund: bending

Cognates

See the 6 cognates of bend

Indicative

Present

Ibend
youbend
he;she;itbends
webend
youbend
theybend

Perfect

Ihave bent; bended
youhave bent; bended
he;she;ithas bent; bended
wehave bent; bended
youhave bent; bended
theyhave bent; bended

Past

Ibent
youbent
he;she;itbent
webent
youbent
theybent

Pluperfect

Ihad bent; bended
youhad bent; bended
he;she;ithad bent; bended
wehad bent; bended
youhad bent; bended
theyhad bent; bended

Future

Iwill bend
youwill bend
he;she;itwill bend
wewill bend
youwill bend
theywill bend

Future Perfect

Iwill have bent; bended
youwill have bent; bended
he;she;itwill have bent; bended
wewill have bent; bended
youwill have bent; bended
theywill have bent; bended

Subjunctive

Present

Ibend
youbend
he;she;itbend
webend
youbend
theybend

Perfect

Ihave bent; bended
youhave bent; bended
he;she;ithave bent; bended
wehave bent; bended
youhave bent; bended
theyhave bent; bended

Imperfect

Ibent
youbent
he;she;itbent
webent
youbent
theybent

Pluperfect

Ihad bent; bended
youhad bent; bended
he;she;ithad bent; bended
wehad bent; bended
youhad bent; bended
theyhad bent; bended

Conditional

Present

Iwould bend
youwould bend
he;she;itwould bend
wewould bend
youwould bend
theywould bend

Perfect

Iwould have bent; bended
youwould have bent; bended
he;she;itwould have bent; bended
wewould have bent; bended
youwould have bent; bended
theywould have bent; bended

Imperative

youbend
weLet's bend
youbend

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam bending
youare bending
he;she;itis bending
weare bending
youare bending
theyare bending

Perfect

Ihave been bending
youhave been bending
he;she;ithas been bending
wehave been bending
youhave been bending
theyhave been bending

Past

Iwas bending
youwere bending
he;she;itwas bending
wewere bending
youwere bending
theywere bending

Pluperfect

Ihad been bending
youhad been bending
he;she;ithad been bending
wehad been bending
youhad been bending
theyhad been bending

Future

Iwill be bending
youwill be bending
he;she;itwill be bending
wewill be bending
youwill be bending
theywill be bending

Future Perfect

Iwill have been bending
youwill have been bending
he;she;itwill have been bending
wewill have been bending
youwill have been bending
theywill have been bending

Conditional

Present

Iwould be bending
youwould be bending
he;she;itwould be bending
wewould be bending
youwould be bending
theywould be bending

Perfect

Iwould have been bending
youwould have been bending
he;she;itwould have been bending
wewould have been bending
youwould have been bending
theywould have been bending

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'bend'

bend, build, lend, misspend, overbuild, overspend, rebuild, send, shend, spend, berend, besend, bespend, bodybuild, databend, foresend, forespend, forspend, forthsend, genderbend, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)

Verbs similar to 'bend'

abend, band, bead, bed, bind, blend, bond, bund, end, fend,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

bend or curve
curb
to submit to the power of another
abandon, capitulate, cave in, cede, fall in line, give in, give over, give up, give way, knuckle under, relinquish, strike one's flag, strike the colors, strike the flag, submit, surrender, throw in the towel, throw up one's hands, turn in, wave the white flag, yield
to cause something to change its shape into a curve
bow, courb, crook, curb, curl, curve, flex, incurvate
twist
warp, bow, flex, crook, curve, deflect, refract, deform
influence
manipulate, persuade, direct, compel, coerce, mold, dispose
acquiesce
agree, bow, succumb, stoop, submit, yield
deviate
sway, lean, droop, incline, swerve, buckle, diverge

Antonyms

to cause something to change its shape into a curve
rectify, straighten, unbend, uncoil, uncurl, unfold, unroll
twist
unwind, straighten, disentangle, separate
influence
ineffectiveness, impotence, futility, incapacity
deviate
direct, straightforward, straight, unswerving

Additional Information

Cf. Old English weak verbs byldan (build), gyldan (gild), bendan (bend), rendan (rend), sendan (send), scendan (shend), spendan (spend), wendan (wend).

Etymology

1. O.E. bendan "to confine with a string," causative of bindan "to bind," from P.Gmc. base *band- "string, band" (cf. O.N. benda "to join, strain, strive, bend"), from PIE base *bhendh- (cf. Goth. bindan, O.H.G. bintan, Skt. badhnati "binds," Lith. bendras "partner;" O.Pers. bandaka- "subject"). Modern sense (c.1320) is via notion of bending a bow to string it. Cognate with band, bind, and bond). The noun meaning "thing of bent shape" is from c.1600. The bends "decompression pain" first attested 1894. Bender "drinking bout" is U.S. slang, first attested 1846.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-der.
4. Proto-Germanic *bindaną
5. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
6. Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
7. Proto-Germanic *-janą
8. Proto-Germanic *bandijaną
9. Proto-West Germanic *bandijan
10. Old English bendan
11. Middle English benden
12. English bend
13. From Middle English benden, from Old English bendan (“to bind or bend (a bow), fetter, restrain”), from Proto-West Germanic *bandijan, from Proto-Germanic *bandijaną (“to bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to bind, tie”).
14. Cognate with Middle High German benden (“to fetter”), Danish bænde (“to bend”), Norwegian bende (“to bend”), Faroese benda (“to bend, inflect”), Icelandic benda (“to bend”). Related to bind, band, bond. See: Old English 'bendan', Proto-Germanic '*bandijaną', Middle High German 'benden', Danish 'bænde', Faroese 'benda', Icelandic 'benda'.

Verbs referencing "bend"

Sranan beni, French bander, Icelandic benda, Swedish bända.

Sample Sentences

  • [...] down below with their own baggage, and stumbling over other people 's; disposing themselves comfortably in wrong cabins, and creating a most horrible confusion by having to turn out again; madly bent upon opening locked doors, and on forcing a passage into all kinds of out-of-the-way places where there is no thoroughfare; sending wild stewards, with elfin hair, to and fro upon the breezy decks [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • A head-wind! Imagine a human face upon the vessel 's prow, with fifteen thousand Samsons in one bent upon driving her back, and hitting her exactly between the eyes whenever she attempts to advance an inch. Imagine the ship herself, with every pulse and artery of her huge body swollen and bursting [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • Eliza trembled, and was silent. She had never seen her husband in this mood before; and her gentle system of ethics seemed to bend like a reed in the surges of such passions. (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • [...] and the river was swollen and turbulent; great cakes of floating ice were swinging heavily to and fro in the turbid waters. Owing to the peculiar form of the shore on the Kentucky side, the land bending far out into the water, the ice had been lodged and detained in great quantities, and the narrow channel which swept round the bend was full of ice, piled one cake over another, thus forming a [...] (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • [...] two opposite rows of small iron doors. They look like furnace-doors, but are cold and black, as though the fires within had all gone out. Some two or three are open, and women, with drooping heads bent down, are talking to the inmates. The whole is lighted by a skylight, but it is fast closed; and from the roof there dangle, limp and drooping, two useless windsails. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] all, without disguise, in naked ugliness and horror. In the dining-room, a bare, dull, dreary place, with nothing for the eye to rest on but the empty walls, a woman was locked up alone. She was bent, they told me, on committing suicide. If anything could have strengthened her in her resolution, it would certainly have been the insupportable monotony of such an existence. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • Does he never look men in the face, and does he always pluck at those hands of his, as though he were bent on parting skin and bone ? It is his humour: nothing more. (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] whatever it might be. Luckily, I came upon my back at exactly the right moment. I was much alarmed on looking upward, to see, by the shape of his half-yard of sacking (which his weight had bent into an exceedingly tight bag ), that there was a very heavy gentleman above me, whom the slender cords seemed quite incapable of holding; and I could not help reflecting upon the grief of my wife [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)
  • [...] persuasive old chair, and worth, in the way of honest, homely enjoyment, a dozen of your plush or _brochetelle_ drawing-room gentry; and in the chair, gently swaying back and forward, her eyes bent on some fine sewing, sat our fine old friend Eliza. Yes, there she is, paler and thinner than in her Kentucky home, with a world of quiet sorrow lying under the shadow of her long eyelashes, and [...] (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  • [...] to St. Louis, to fetch his family, whom he had left behind; but he seemed in no great hurry to bring on these incumbrances, for when we moved away, he loitered back into the cabin, and was plainly bent on stopping there so long as his money lasted. He was a great politician of course, and explained his opinions at some length to one of our company; but I only remember that he concluded with two [...] (American Notes for General Circulation)