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曲げる まげる N2

  1. to bend; to bow; to crook; to curl; to curve
  2. to incline; to lean; to slant; to tilt
  3. to bend (the truth); to distort; to pervert; to twist
  4. to depart (from a principle); to ignore (what one really thinks); to yield (a point)
  5. to pawn

冠を曲げる かんむりをまげる

  1. to become displeased; to get stubborn

ねじ曲げる ねじまげる

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

折り曲げる おりまげる

  1. to bend; to double; to turn down; to turn up

事実を曲げる じじつをまげる

  1. to falsify a fact

へそを曲げる へそをまげる

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

ひん曲げる ひんまげる

  1. to bend (with great force); to twist; to wrench
  2. to distort (the truth)

へし曲げる へしまげる

  1. to bend

くの字に曲げる くのじにまげる

  1. to bend forward from the waist to form a chevron shape; to bend over in the shape of the hiragana character ku

つむじを曲げる つむじをまげる

  1. to be contrary
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