verb/bɑ̃.de/
to bandage; to flex, tighten the muscles, strain, tauten; to have a hard-on, to get a hard-on
“Je bande pour toi.” — I’ve got a hard-on for you.
Inherited from Middle French bander, from Old French bander, bender, from Frankish *bandijan, from Proto-Germanic *bandijaną. Cognate with English bend.