bend to someone's will
bend to someone's will verb: to yield to persuasion or other pressure originating from someone.
Verb
bend to someone's will (third-person singular simple present bends to someone's will, present participle bending to someone's will, simple past and past participle bent to someone's will)
- To yield to persuasion or other pressure originating from someone.
- 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.[…]...1893, Martha Finley, chapter 15, in The Tragedy of Wild River Valley
- […] this slavedriver, who spends his life making thousands of rough violent workmen bend to his will and sweat for him.1919, George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House, act 2
Forms of bend to someone's will
| third-person singular present | bends to someone's will |
|---|---|
| present participle | bending to someone's will |
| past participle | bent to someone's will |
| past | bent to someone's will |
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