<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>curved; crooked: a bent stick.</li><li>a bent bow; a bent stick.</li><li>determined; set; resolved (usually followed by on): to be bent on buying a new car.</li><li>morally crooked; corrupt.</li><li>stolen: bent merchandise.</li><li>unbalanced or crazy; irrational: Man, your take on things is so bent I can hardly follow it.</li><li>Chiefly British Slang: Disparaging and Offensive: gay.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>direction taken, as by one's interests; inclination: a bent for painting.</li><li>capacity of endurance: to work at the top of one's bent.</li><li>Civil Engineering: a transverse frame, as of a bridge or an aqueduct, designed to support either vertical or horizontal loads.</li><li>Archaic: bent state or form; curvature.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>the simple past tense and past participle of bend.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>