"debend" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1987 October, Kevin Strehlo, “Turbo Wars”, in Business Software, volume 5, number 10, →ISSN, page 42:",
          "text": "Even a brain surgeon will have trouble removing an 8088 with such a puller without bending the pins a bit. However, they’re fairly malleable and they’ll submit to “debending” with needle-nose pliers a surprising number of times before snapping.",
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          "ref": "1997 February 10, Carl Eric Codere, “Visions: MANGLED CARDS and Rarer Rares.”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):",
          "text": "From my personal experience with both typew^([sic]) of cards, US and Belgian made, it seems that the American cards bend much more easily, and they are also very much tougher to 'debend'.",
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          "text": "Moreover, the solid–liquid mixture is subjected to a variety of mechanically induced strains due to the interaction with the mould, the hydrostatic pressure of the liquid (called metallostatic pressure in foundry), and bending and debending operations.",
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          "ref": "2006 November 1, Will Chapman, “Re: Prop Size”, in uk.rec.waterways (Usenet):",
          "text": "Cost me about £600 to debend the prop and fit a new shaft and gland. Fortunately it was covered by insurance.",
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          "ref": "2018, Yuanyuan Shang, Junchao Liu, Manbo Zhang, Wanli He, Xinyu Cao, Jingxia Wang, Tomiki Ikeda, Lei Jiang, “Reversible solvent-sensitive actuator with continuous bending/debending process from liquid crystal elastomer-colloidal material”, in Soft Matter, volume 14, number 27, →DOI, pages 5547–5553:",
          "text": "The as-prepared LCE-colloidal actuator demonstrated a bending angle (BA) of 1080° in 1.58 s in dichloromethane, accompanied with a successive debending in 0.32 s (Movie S1).",
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        "To unbend; to make or allow to become straight from a bent position."
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        "(transitive, rare) To unbend; to make or allow to become straight from a bent position."
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