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Flex   /flɛks/   Listen
Flex

verb
(past & past part. flexed; pres. part. flexing)
1.
Contract.
2.
Exhibit the strength of.
3.
Form a curve.  Synonym: bend.
4.
Bend a joint.  Synonym: bend.  "Bend your knees"
5.
Cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form.  Synonyms: bend, deform, turn, twist.  "Twist the dough into a braid" , "The strong man could turn an iron bar"



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"Flex" Quotes from Famous Books



... men went on their way. Near the little gate in the garden railings that Pestovitch had caused to be unlocked, the king paused under the shadow of an flex and looked back at the place. It was very high and narrow, a twentieth-century rendering of mediaevalism, mediaevalism in steel and bronze and sham stone and opaque glass. Against the sky it splashed a confusion of pinnacles. High up in the ...
— The World Set Free • Herbert George Wells



Words linked to "Flex" :   swank, dent, lean, bow, crouch, convolute, straighten, flash, creep, change form, slant, curl, tip, double, crawl, cringe, contract, crank, gnarl, replicate, indent, crook, move, arc, flaunt, curve, fawn, incurvate, shrink, draw in, grovel, double over, unbend, convolve, ostentate, arch, stoop, double up, change shape, show off, tilt, curl up, cower, angle



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