Definitions

bends

NOUN

compressed air sickness

Synonyms

WEAK

aeroembolism caisson disease divers' palsy divers' paralysis

NOUN

decompression sickness

Synonyms

WEAK

aeroembolism air embolism caisson disease decompression disease diver's condition divers' palsy dysbaric illness the bends tunnel disease

Example Sentences

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Appeared in the February 6, 2026, print edition as 'Vought Bends the Curve'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

Rosie Carney released a full-length folkification of The Bends.

From Slate • Dec. 22, 2020

Pawpaws grow abundantly on the Potomac River’s floodplains, not just along the Paw Paw Bends under which the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal folks tunneled.

From Washington Post • Sep. 14, 2018

So if I Remember is your version of The Bends, have we got an OK Computer to come?

From BBC • Sep. 12, 2016

Viola was singing “The Willow Bends Her Boughs for Me” as she stoked the kitchen stove.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

Vocabulary lists containing bends

Civil Engineering

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