Meaning of bend to someone's will | Babel Free

Definitions

To yield to persuasion or other pressure originating from someone.

idiomatic, intransitive

Examples

“Bangs beset her at every turn, meeting her in her walks and rides, coming on her when she was in the field, and could not escape from him, and urging his suit with persuasions, promises, and threats, determined to win her, in spite of the most firm and decided rejection repeated again and again.[…] Bangs waxed more and more wroth at her steadfast refusal to bend to his will.”

“[…] this slavedriver, who spends his life making thousands of rough violent workmen bend to his will and sweat for him.”

“Other branches of government often bent to his will.”

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