BENDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bended mean? 

• BENDED (adjective)
  The adjective BENDED has 1 sense:

1. used of the back and knees; stooped

  Familiarity information: BENDED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BENDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used of the back and knees; stooped

Synonyms:

bended; bent

Context example:

with bent (or bended) back

Similar:

unerect (not upright in position or posture)

 Context examples 

For with us in France it has ever been fair and honest war—a shut fist for the man, but a bended knee for the woman.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A tall man, much stooped in the shoulders, was walking slowly with bended head and clasped hands in the centre of the path.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As they swept gravely in by twos and by threes, with bended heads and muttering lips there were few who did not bear upon them some signs of their daily toil.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)