曲げる – Vocabulary details

曲まげる

Verb (1-dan, transitive)

1. to bend; to crook; to bow; to curve; to curl

曲まげるとまだ痛いたむ気きがした。I felt that it still hurt when I bent it.

2. to lean; to tilt; to incline; to slant

3. to bend (the truth); to distort; to twist; to pervert

彼かれは話はなしを曲まげて伝つたえた。He passed on a twisted version of the story.

4. to yield (a point); to depart (from a principle); to ignore (what one really thinks)

悪わるいけど、どんな状じょう況きょうだろうと、自じ分ぶんを曲まげるつもりはない。Sorry, but no matter the situation, I have no intention of yielding.

5. to pawn

curved

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to bend by twisting; to twist; to contort; to distort (e.g. the truth); to twist (e.g. someone's words)

to bend; to turn up; to turn down; to double

to (go into a) sulk; to get cranky; to get cross; to become perverse

右みぎ腕うでを曲まげられません。

I can't bend my right arm.

少しょう年ねんは考かんがえを曲まげなかった。

The boy didn't change his opinion.

増ます夫おはスプーンを曲まげられる。

Masuo can bend spoons.

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