debend

verb

1. (rare, transitive)To unbend; to make or allow to become straight from a bent position.

   “Even a brain surgeon will have trouble removing an 8088 with such a puller without bending the pins a bit. However, they’re fairly malleable and they’ll submit to “debending” with needle-nose pliers a surprising number of times before snapping.”

   “From my personal experience with both typew^([sic]) of cards, US and Belgian made, it seems that the American cards bend much more easily, and they are also very much tougher to 'debend'.”

   “Moreover, the solid–liquid mixture is subjected to a variety of mechanically induced strains due to the interaction with the mould, the hydrostatic pressure of the liquid (called metallostatic pressure in foundry), and bending and debending operations.”

   “Cost me about £600 to debend the prop and fit a new shaft and gland. Fortunately it was covered by insurance.”

   “The as-prepared LCE-colloidal actuator demonstrated a bending angle (BA) of 1080° in 1.58 s in dichloromethane, accompanied with a successive debending in 0.32 s (Movie S1).”