Synonyms of the word flex


FLEXBEND - CONTRACT - DEFORM - FLASH - FLAUNT - FLEXION - FLEXURE - MOVE - OSTENTATE - SHRINK - SWANK - TURN - TWIST

flex

  • n. (uncountable) Flexibility, pliancy.
  • n. (countable) The act of flexing.
  • n. (uncountable, chiefly Britain) Any flexible insulated electrical wiring.
  • n. (countable, geometry) 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.

bend

  • v. (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action,…
  • v. (intransitive) To become curved.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to change direction.
  • v. (intransitive) To change direction.
  • v. (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
  • v. (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
  • v. (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
  • v. (transitive) To force to submit.
  • v. (intransitive) To submit.
  • v. (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
  • v. (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
  • v. (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
  • v. (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make…
  • v. (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
  • v. (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
  • n. A curve.
  • n. Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
  • n. (in the plural, medicine, diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression,…
  • n. (heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to…
  • n. (obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
  • n. In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt.
  • n. (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
  • n. (nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales,…
  • n. (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the…
  • n. (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.

contract

  • n. An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or…
  • n. (law) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at…
  • n. (law) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
  • n. (informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
  • n. (bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
  • adj. (obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
  • adj. (obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
  • v. (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to…
  • v. (transitive) To enter into a contract with.
  • v. (transitive) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
  • v. (intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
  • v. (transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
  • v. (transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
  • v. To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
  • v. To betroth; to affiance.

deform

  • v. (transitive) To change the form of, negatively.
  • v. (transitive) To change the looks of, negatively; to disfigure.
  • v. (transitive) To mar the character of.
  • v. (transitive) To alter the shape of by stress.
  • v. (intransitive) To become misshapen or changed in shape.
  • adj. (obsolete) Deformed, misshapen.

flash

  • v. To briefly illuminate a scene.
  • v. To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
  • v. To be visible briefly.
  • v. To make visible briefly.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To briefly, and in most cases inadvertently, expose one's naked body…
  • v. (transitive, informal) To show or expose an "inappropriate" part of the body to someone for humorous reasons…
  • v. (figuratively) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
  • v. To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
  • v. To communicate quickly.
  • v. To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
  • v. (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
  • v. (intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.).
  • v. (transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
  • v. (computing) To write to the memory of an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge.
  • v. (glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
  • v. (juggling) To perform a flash.
  • v. (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To trick up in a showy manner.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
  • n. A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
  • n. A very short amount of time.
  • n. (colloquial, US) A flashlight; an electric torch.
  • n. (figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
  • n. Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
  • n. (Britain, Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
  • n. (juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
  • n. (linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood…
  • n. (photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help…
  • n. (archaic) A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for colouring liquor to make it look stronger.
  • adj. (Britain and New Zealand, slang) Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy.
  • adj. (Britain, of a person) Having plenty of ready money.
  • adj. (Britain, of a person) Liable to show off expensive possessions or money.
  • adj. (US, slang) Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously.
  • n. A pool.
  • n. (engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream…

flaunt

  • v. (intransitive, archaic) To wave or flutter smartly in the wind.
  • v. (transitive) To parade, display with ostentation.
  • v. (intransitive, archaic or literary) To show off, as with flashy clothing.
  • v. To flout.

flexion

  • n. The act of bending a joint, especially a bone joint. The counteraction of extension.
  • n. Alternative spelling of flection.

flexure

  • n. The act of bending or flexing; flexion.
  • n. A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve.
  • n. (anatomy) A curve or bend in a tubular organ.
  • n. (zoology) The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.
  • n. (astronomy) The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the…

move

  • v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
  • v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
  • v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
  • v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
  • v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
  • v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
  • v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
  • v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
  • n. The act of moving; a movement.
  • n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
  • n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
  • n. The event of changing one's residence.
  • n. A change in strategy.
  • n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
  • n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

ostentate

  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To make an ambitious display of; to show or exhibit boastingly.

shrink

  • v. (transitive) To cause to become smaller.
  • v. (intransitive) To become smaller; to contract.
  • v. (intransitive) To cower or flinch.
  • v. (transitive) To draw back; to withdraw.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To withdraw or retire, as from danger.
  • v. (intransitive) To move back or away, especially because of fear or disgust.
  • n. Shrinkage; contraction; recoil.
  • n. (slang, sometimes pejorative) A psychiatrist or therapist; a head-shrinker.

swank

  • adj. (dated) Fashionably elegant.
  • n. A fashionably elegant person.
  • n. Ostentation; bravado.
  • v. To swagger, to show off.

turn

  • v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
  • v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
  • v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
  • v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
  • v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
  • v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
  • v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
  • v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
  • v. (archaic) To translate.
  • n. A change of direction or orientation.
  • n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
  • n. A single loop of a coil.
  • n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
  • n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
  • n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
  • n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
  • n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
  • n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
  • n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
  • n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
  • n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
  • n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
  • n. A deed done to another.
  • n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
  • n. Character; personality; nature.
  • n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
  • n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

twist

  • n. A twisting force.
  • n. Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
  • n. The form given in twisting.
  • n. The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
  • n. A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
  • n. A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
  • n. A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
  • n. A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
  • n. An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
  • n. A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See.
  • n. A rotation of the body when diving.
  • n. A sprain, especially to the ankle.
  • n. (obsolete) A twig.
  • n. (slang) A girl, a woman.
  • n. (obsolete) A roll of twisted dough, baked.
  • n. A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
  • n. The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
  • n. (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
  • n. A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
  • v. To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
  • v. To join together by twining one part around another.
  • v. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
  • v. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
  • v. (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
  • v. To turn a knob etc.
  • v. To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
  • v. To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
  • v. To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
  • v. (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to rotate.
  • v. (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
  • v. (transitive) To coax.
  • v. (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.

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