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v. exhibit the strength of; "The victorious army flexes its invincibility"

v. form a curve; "The stick does not bend"

v. cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form; "bend the rod"; "twist the dough into a braid"; "the strong man could turn an iron bar"

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slope, incline, pitch

v. be at an angle; "The terrain sloped down"

sag, droop, swag, flag

v. droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness

fail

v. get worse; "Her health is declining"

sag, sag down

v. cause to sag; "The children sagged their bottoms down even more comfortably"

wring

v. twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid; "wring the towels"

loosen, relax, loose

v. become loose or looser or less tight; "The noose loosened"; "the rope relaxed"

slow, slow down, slow up, slack, slacken

v. become slow or slower; "Production slowed"

slacken, remit

v. make slack as by lessening tension or firmness

give way, yield

v. end resistance, as under pressure or force; "The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram"

tend, be given, lean, incline, run

v. have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined; "She tends to be nervous before her lectures"; "These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence"

veer

v. shift to a clockwise direction; "the wind veered"

kneel

v. rest one's weight on one's knees; "In church you have to kneel during parts of the service"

coil, loop, curl

v. wind around something in coils or loops

flex, bend

v. bend a joint; "flex your wrists"; "bend your knees"

give way, yield

v. end resistance, as under pressure or force; "The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram"

coil, loop, curl

v. wind around something in coils or loops