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HUBLOT Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Bent / bent over



Is this old woman bent? Or is she bent over?
  

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I'd describe her as 'bending over to sweep the street'. CJ

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I'd describe her as 'bending over to sweep the street'.

CJ
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Thanks a lot, CJ.

If her back is always bent, how do you describe her?
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HUBLOTThanks a lot, CJ.If her back is always bent, how do you describe her?
As a hunchback.
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HUBLOTIf her back is always bent, how do you describe her?
Two very common popular terms for a condition like that are 'hunchbacked' and 'humpbacked', but you would not use those words speaking directly to the woman. The more genteel way of expressing it is to say she has a spinal deformity.

Spinal deformities are caused by any of a number of medical
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Thank you, CJ.

http://www.scp-wiki.net/when-we-came-home
A man stood there, on the road where the forest ended. He was old and bent over, leaning on a cane, with short grey hair and a clipped grey beard. His clothes and air were proper, polite, wise. Gentle eyes s
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HUBLOTWhat does "bent over" mean?
Most likely, hunchbacked, no longer able to stand straight up.

'bent over' is a euphemism for 'hunchbacked'.

CJ
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CJ,

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