bend to one's will
Examples
“Cenci: For Beatrice worse terrors are in store / To bend⟳ her to my will. Lucretia: Oh! to what will? / What cruel sufferings more than she has known / Canst thou inflict?”
“His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he bent her to his will.”
“Morrison had a superfluity of gifts and, like⟳ few other writers of her era, bent language to her will.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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