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flexed

[flekst]

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adjective

bent or contracted, as a part of the body.
When roller skating, a low posture and slightly flexed knees will help your stability.
Heraldry.��(of a human leg) depicted as bent at the knee.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of flex.

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Other Word Forms

unflexed adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of flexed¹

First recorded in 1515–25; flex ¹ + -ed ² for the adjective senses; flex ¹ + -ed ¹ for the verb sense

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Vladimir Nabokov flexed on both of them by using em dashes between other em dashes.

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Important people flexed by doing none of that — they showed off by not having computers on their desks at all.

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Anna Dobbins, a reporter for WHFF-TV, added that Sigmon wore a black jump suit, but had bare arms that "flexed" when he was shot.

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Londoner Dubois, 25, smiled and flexed her muscles before the two women gently leaned in with their heads for the face-off.

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But as the whole of Galen Center stood in her honor Sunday, Marshall smiled wide and flexed to the crowd, before raising a bursting bouquet of red roses into the air.

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flexecutive flex-fuel

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