The Latin word duplicāre came to Spanish as dominagar . It is the action that consists of making an individual change their objective or vision . For example: “Despite the threats from the gangsters, they are not going to break us,” “The government does not know how to break the opposition,” “Some people want to break me, but I am willing to continue my fight until ultimate consequences.”
The most common use of bending is in the field of sports . In this context, the verb is linked to defeat or defeat . Breaking, therefore, means overcoming the rival's resistance or opposition in order to prevail.
A chronicle may indicate that, thanks to a reaction in the last quarter, the Cleveland Cavaliers managed to defeat the Golden State Warriors in a match corresponding to the NBA final series. The text reveals that the Cavaliers defeated the Warriors by improving their level in the final stretch of the game.
It can be said, on the other hand, that a soccer team had a good debut in a tournament by defeating its opponent. The team in question, according to this expression, achieved victory in the first match they played.
In certain cases, bend can refer to eliminate or render ineffective . Suppose that, in a country, a movement arises opposing the government that seeks to overthrow it to gain power. With this goal, it promotes massive protests, calls for a boycott and even commits attacks against state organizations. An analyst, observing the situation, affirms that the opposition intends to subvert democracy since it does not aspire to become a government through elections, but by force.
Let's look at some of the synonyms of the word bend , to try to understand all its nuances: twist, flex and bend . In these three terms we can observe an action that affects a third party, whether it is an object, a situation or another living being. The examples presented in the previous paragraphs present situations that could be understood through them; For example, getting someone to change their mind is also "twisting" their ideas.
In this framework, dictionaries offer us the following antonyms: stretch and straighten . Of course, these words do not have much place in contexts like the previous ones, where no allusion is made to a material change but rather a symbolic one. It would be possible, however, to use the verb straighten with the meaning of direct , to talk about ideologies or points of view, the way in which the subject carries out his life, perhaps as a result of his resistance to other people's attempts to bend him. .
But all this leads us to the reflexive form of the verb bend , that is, to bend , which is used to refer to an action that the subject directs towards himself. In this case, the list of synonyms that we can find is much more extensive than in the previous one: submit, yield, humiliate, resign , access, abide, fold and accept . Its antonyms, on the other hand, are: resist and rebel .
We could say that this form of the verb is what the subject carries out when he does not offer sufficient resistance to the attempts of a third party to bend him, to twist his will. It is very important to highlight that bending is not simply accepting a series of orders or instructions to maintain the order of an organization, as can occur in a company or even in a family group, but rather it is the repression of one's own will to a certain extent. degree that can be harmful.
Rebelling, on the other hand, can be understood as a path that, in the best of cases, manages to subdue the person who tried to do it in the first place.