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Synonyms for bent
Synonyms for bent: bended and crumpled. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for bent
Interchangeable with bent in this sense
Audited under bent's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one bent carries in that sense.
- bendedadjective, in the sense "used of the back and knees"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name bent as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- crumpledcrumpled is an adjective in the sense "of metal e.g"
one of these comes from bent's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
used of the back and knees
She knelt with bent knees and bowed her head.
The true synonym
bended
Same sentence, swapped: She knelt with bended knees and bowed her head.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- dented
- smashed
- bearing
Where bent turns up in the game
bent is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where bent is the trap
- corneredadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is trapped, in the sense "forced to turn and face attackers", with bent sitting one tile away.
- leaningadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is tipped, in the sense "departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal", so bent is there to be ruled out.
- affinitynoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is kinship, in the sense "a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character", with bent sitting one tile away.
Play bent
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so bent reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
bent is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 3. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.