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.
Definition of bend. 1  1 : the act or process of bending doing knee bends : the state of being bent the graceful bends of Gothic windows. 2  2 : something that is bent: such asa : a curved part of a path (as of a stream or road) Their house is down the road, just past the bend.b nautical : 1wale 2 âusually used in plural.