BENT

Bent

Bent is a 1979 play by Martin Sherman. It revolves around the persecution of gays in Nazi Germany, and takes place during and after the Night of the Long Knives.

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bent

Noun

  1. An inclination or talent.
    He had a natural bent for painting.
  2. A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
    His mind was of a technical bent.
  3. The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
    the bent of a bow
  4. A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
  5. Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
  6. A transverse frame of a framed structure.
  7. Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
  2. A grassy area, grassland.

Verb

bent

Adjective

  1. folded, dented
  2. Homosexual.
  3. Determined or insistent.
    He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why.
    They were bent on mischief.
  4. Of a person, leading a life of crime.
  5. inaccurate at shooting
    That shot was so bent it left the pitch.
  6. Suffering from the bends
  7. High from using both marijuana and alcohol.
    Man, I am so bent right now!


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