Crossword-Solution: BENT 4 letters, 258 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Bent	-	of Bend
Bent	-	imp. & p. p. of Bend.
Bent	a. & p. p.	Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.
Bent	a. & p. p.	Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; -- said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.
Bent	v.	The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.
Bent	v.	A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
Bent	v.	A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.
Bent	v.	Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
Bent	v.	A transverse frame of a framed structure.
Bent	v.	Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
Bent	n.	A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.
Bent	n.	A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.
Bent	n.	Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
BENT	anagram	BTEN, NETB, TENB

We have 258 clues for the answer “BENT”

Clue	Answers
"As the twig is ___ . . . "	1 answer
"Don't get ___ out of shape!"	1 answer
"Just as the twig is ___ . . . "	1 answer
Add-on for hell	1 answer
BENNET	1 answer
Cast of mind	1 answer
Corrupt, in British slang	1 answer
Determined with on	1 answer
Distorted, as a rule	1 answer
Dog-eared, say	1 answer
Flexed, as an elbow	1 answer
Flexed, as at the elbow	1 answer
Forming an angle	1 answer
Gave in a little	1 answer
Having a kink, maybe	1 answer
Having an angle	1 answer
Having one's heart set (on)	1 answer
Hell-___ (determined)	1 answer
Hunched	1 answer
Hunched (over)	1 answer
Like L, u, r...!	1 answer
Like a crowbar	1 answer
Like a dog's hind leg	1 answer
Like a hairpin	1 answer
Like a kneeler's knee	1 answer
Like a paper clip	1 answer
Like a pole vaulter's pole in action	1 answer
Like a pole-vaulter's pole mid-vault	1 answer
Like a shepherd's crook	1 answer
Like a shepherd's staff	1 answer
Like an arm in a sling	1 answer
Like an elbow, sometimes	1 answer
Like elbows when making the "M" in the "YMCA" dance	1 answer
Like elements of pipe cleaner art	1 answer
Like knees during a squat	1 answer
Like knees in chair pose	1 answer
Like knees in cow pose	1 answer
Like knees in goddess pose	1 answer
Like knees when kneeling	1 answer
Like knees when squatting	1 answer
Like lop ears	1 answer
Like paper clips	1 answer
Like some ears and elbows	1 answer
Like some ears and rules	1 answer
Like some ears or elbows	1 answer
Like some pipes and knees	1 answer
Like staples	1 answer
Like the wire in a croquet wicket	1 answer
Like the wire in clothes hangers	1 answer
Like the wire in paper clips	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TEAER

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with BENT (5)

Tootles, the fairy Tink, who is bent on mischief this night is looking for a tool, and she thinks you are the most easily tricked of the boys.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

And he saw a youth approaching, Dressed in garments green and yellow, Coming through the purple twilight, Through the splendor of the sunset; Plumes of green bent o’er his forehead, And his hair was soft and golden.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

Nor was his eare less peal’d With noises loud and ruinous (to compare Great things with small) then when _Bellona_ storms, With all her battering Engines bent to rase Som Capital City, or less then if this frame Of Heav’n were falling, and these Elements In mutinie had from her Axle torn The stedfast Earth.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

The spectacle was often repeated with great applause, till on one occasion a courtier, bent on mischief, took from his pocket a handful of nuts and threw them upon the stage.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

Then the Genius of the Divide, the great, free spirit which breathes across it, must have bent lower than it ever bent to a human will before.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Quotes with BENT (3)

When God Created Mothers" When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of "overtime" when the angel appeared and said. "You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one." And God said, "Have you read the specs on this order?" She has to be completely washable, but not plastic. Have 180 moveable parts... all replaceable. Run on black coffee and leftovers. Have a lap that disappears when she stands up. A kiss that can cure anything from a broken leg to a …

Erma Bombeck When God Created Mothers

How easy it was to capitalize on a person’s own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life.

Robert Galbraith The Cuckoo's Calling

As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.

James Rozoff

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 337 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).