courber

Son explication était ridicule : il prétendait que la plaque se courbait et devenait un bateau.
His explanation was absurd: the slab bends and becomes a boat.
Il était également suspecté que la trajectoire de la lumière se courbait en passant près des étoiles, sans pour autant pouvoir quantifier le phénomène.
It was also suspected that the trajectory of light curved when it passed close to stars, the problem was to quantify this phenomenon.
L'arbre se courbait à la merci de l'ouragan.
The tree bent at the mercy of the hurricane.
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