UNBEND Copy link • UNBENDTo make straight what had been curved, corrigere (seldom; not in Cic.; Catullus, Plin.): (pravum aliquid) rectum facere. To relax the tension of anything, retendere: remittere (both †; to unbend a bow, arcum). ImPROP., velut retendere aliquid (Quint.). To unbend the mind, animum remittere, or relaxare.