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Ichidan verb, transitive verb

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