Definition
To compel someone or something to conform to one's desires.
In Context
- "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."