The root word fic meaning âmakeâ is a very productive root in English and you should make yourself comfortable with it. purification: process of âmakingâ pure certification: act of âmakingâ sure
bent 1. (bÄnt) v. Past tense and past participle of bend1. adj. 1. Altered from an originally straight or even condition: picked up pieces of bent wire. 2. Determined to take a course of action: I was bent on going to the concert.
See below: 1  BENT - An isometric of structural framing of the four-bay Isaac van Campen Dutch barn in Sussex County in northwest NJ. 2  BENT - An early nineteenth-century side wall entry Dutch-American barn in northeast Schoharie County, NY. Note the large double ties or anchor-beams with extended tenons in the one bent.