Flex

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To bend (something pliant or elastic).
  • v. To bend (a joint).
  • v. To bend (a joint) repeatedly.
  • v. To contract (a muscle, for example).
  • v. To move by muscular control: "Sandy flexes his brow characteristically” ( Scott Turow).
  • v. To exhibit or show off the strength of: "They had spent six years since the lightning Six Day War flexing their invincibility” ( Howard Kaplan).
  • verb-intransitive. To bend: "His hands flexed nervously as he spoke” ( Mary McCarthy).
  • n. Chiefly British Flexible insulated electric cord.
  • n. The act or an instance of flexing; a bending.
  • n. Pliancy; flexibility: "'Resolution' has none of that modern flex we favor, with generous, built-in amounts of 'maybe'” ( Melvin Maddocks).
  • idiom. flex (one's) muscles Informal To exhibit or show off one's strength.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Flexibility, pliancy.
  • n. The act of flexing.
  • n. Any flexible insulated electrical wiring.
  • n. A point of inflection.
  • v. To bend something.
  • v. To repeatedly bend one of one's joints.
  • v. To move part of the body using one's muscles.
  • v. To tighten the muscles for display of size or strength.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To bend.
  • n. Flax.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To bend; make a flexure of: specifically said in anatomy of the action of any flexor muscle.
  • n. An obsolete variant of flax.
  • n. A point of contrary flexure or a point of inflexion.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. contract
  • v. cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form
  • v. form a curve
  • n. the act of flexing
  • v. bend a joint
  • v. exhibit the strength of
  • Verb Form
    flexed    flexing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    contract    shrink    flexure    flexion    move    flash    show off    swank    flaunt    ostentate   
    Form
    flexed    flexing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bend    flax   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Czechs    Ex    Lex    Rex    Tex    Triplex    X    aix    annex    becks   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    twitch    tickle