Meaning of bend to one's will | Babel Free

Definitions

To compel someone or something to conform to one's desires.

idiomatic, transitive

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.”

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