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v. Present participle of bend.

n. A motion or action that bends.

n. The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands.

n. The act of causing to bend, or the state of being bent or deflected; a deflection.

n. Decoration (of clothes) with stripes or horizontal bands.

n. the property of being bent or deflected

n. movement that causes the formation of a curve

n. the act of bending something

"Most of the movements which we call bending the spine are really movements of other joints which connect the body or head with it."

flection    flexure    crooking    circumflexion    genuflexion    reclination   

bend   

amending    apprehending    ascending    attending    befriending    blending    commending    comprehending    condescending    contending