unbend
🇬🇧 UK/.ʌn'bend/🇺🇸 US
GREB1
Definitions
v.
To straighten something curved or bent; to relax and become less formal or tense.
使伸直;放松,变得随和
🧩 Root Breakdown
Native Englishunnot, reversal
+
bendother
=unbend
Common Collocations
- 1.unbend and relax放松下来
- 2.[unbend slightly]稍微放开一些
- 3.begin to unbend开始变得随和
- 4.[unbend a wire]将铁丝拉直
Example Sentences
- 1.
After a few drinks, he began to unbend and join in the conversation.
- 2.
She carefully unbent the wire to use it as a hook.
- 3.
It took the whole evening for the stern professor to finally unbend.