"debend" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: debends [present, singular, third-person], debending [participle, present], debent [participle, past], debent [past]
Etymology: From de- + bend. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|de|bend}} de- + bend Head templates: {{en-verb|debends|debending|debent}} debend (third-person singular simple present debends, present participle debending, simple past and past participle debent)
  1. (transitive, rare) To unbend; to make or allow to become straight from a bent position. Tags: rare, transitive
    Sense id: en-debend-en-verb-F0M2i7xi Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with de-

Inflected forms

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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)",
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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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