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Default Meanings of "age-bent" or "blind & age bent"?

Dear teacher,
Here are two sentences:
(1) As to Grandma, she and Isabel who towered over her age-bent figure, nattered cheerfully over the washing up, carefully keeping the meat and milk dishes and dish-cloths separate.
(2)Enion is reduced from her earlier state "blind & age bent" on the edge of non-entity to wither in Entuthon Benithon, Blake's term for the nadir of generative stasis: "A world of deep darkness where all things in horror are rooted" .
Then, meaning of "age-bent" or "blind & age bent" here?

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Dear gonghoujun,

(1) Grandma's spine isn't all that straight anymore because of her age. She is old. Her figure is age-bent.

(2)"blind" means loss of eyesight.

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Dear Soup,
Thank you very much for your kind helps!
With best wishes!
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