8.3.1.5 Bend

Use this domain for words referring to bending something and for words that describe something that is bent or curved.

Louw Nida Codes: 
79Q Straight, Crooked
  • What words refer to bending something?
    bend, bow, flex, curve, put a kink in,
  • What words refer to something bending?
    bend, buckle, curl, sag, warp,
  • What words describe something that is bent?
    bent, arched, bowed, crinkled, curved, curving, curled, devious, gnarled, gnarly, hooked, indirect, jagged, kinked, knotted, knotty, knurled, knurly, turning, twirled, twisted,
  • What words describe something that should be straight but is bent?
    akimbo, askew, awry, bandy, catawampus, contorted, crooked, deviating, distorted, skewed, tortuous, warped,
  • What words refer to a bend in something?
    bend, bow, curve, kink, loop, angle, joint,
  • What words refer to making many bends in something?
    corrugate,
  • What words describe something that has many bends?
    circuitous, coiled, convoluted, corrugated, curly, curvy, kinky, meandering, pretzel, serpentine, serrated, sinuous, snaky, spiral, tortuous, twisting, undulating, waved, waving, wavy, wind, winding, zigzag,
  • What words refer to a line or road that is bent?
    bend, curve, twist,
  • What words describe something that can be bent?
    bendable, flexible, flexibility, jointed, pliable, plastic, supple,
  • What words describe something that cannot be bent?
    unbending, inflexible, inflexibility, rigid, rigidity,

    • 8.3.1.5.1 Roll up

    Use this domain for words referring to rolling something up.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    79A' Rolled up
  • What words refer to rolling something up?
    roll up, scroll, curl
  • What words refer to something that has been rolled up?
    roll, scroll, curl, spiral
  • What words refer to unrolling something?
    unroll, unfurl,

    • 8.3.1.5.2 Twist, wring

    Use this domain for words referring to twisting something--to take something long and turn one end one way and the other end the other way.

  • What words refer to twisting something?
    twist, wind, twine, coil, wring, wring out, torque
  • What words describe something that has been twisted?
    twisted, winding, entwined, coiled, wrung out

    • 8.3.1.5.3 Fold

    Use this domain for words referring to folding something.

  • What words refer to folding something?
    fold, fold up, crease, turn down, double over, crimp, dog-ear,
  • What words refer to something folding?
    fold, fold up, crease, get creased,
  • What words describe something that is folded?
    folded, creased, dog-eared,
  • What words refer to a fold in something?
    fold, crease, angle, plait, wrinkle, flap, lapel, dog-ear, tuck, gather, pleat,
  • What words refer to making many folds in something?
    crumple, gather, pleat, rumple, tuck, wrinkle,
  • What words describe something that has many folds?
    crumpled up, pleated, wrinkled,
  • What words describe something that can be folded?
    folding, jointed,