To free from flexure; to make straight; as, to unbend a bow.

To relax; to remit from a strain or from exertion; to set at ease for a time; as, to unbend the mind from study or care.

To relax effeminately. You unbend your noble strength.

In seamanship, to take the sails from their yards and stays; also, to cast loose a cable from the anchors; also, to untie one rope from another.