"bend someone's will" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bends someone's will",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bending someone's will",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bent someone's will",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bent someone's will",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bend<,,bent> someone's will"
      },
      "expansion": "bend someone's will (third-person singular simple present bends someone's will, present participle bending someone's will, simple past and past participle bent someone's will)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1882, Charlotte M. Yonge, History of France, ch. 5: The Wars of Religion",
          "text": "[W]hen Catherine tried to draw him to court by proposing a marriage between him and her youngest daughter Margaret, Jeanne left him at home, and went herself to court. Catherine tried in vain to bend her will."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1912, Zane Grey, chapter 20, in Riders of the Purple Sage",
          "text": "[E]ven her love could not avail to bend his will. As if the hold of her arms was that of a child's he loosened it and stepped away.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 January 23, Simon Turnbull, \"Carry on Shearer: Given's plea to captain, Independent (UK)(retrieved 23 Aug 2019)",
          "text": "Despite Shearer's insistence that he intends to hang up his scoring boots at the end of the season, Souness has pledged to keep pestering him to change his mind. Whether the Iron Laddie is for turning remains to be seen, but the pressure to bend his will is being applied from within the Newcastle dressing-room as well as from the manager's office."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To persuade or otherwise induce someone to change his or her views or to choose a different course of action."
      ],
      "id": "en-bend_someone's_will-en-verb-k9W1UIR0",
      "links": [
        [
          "persuade",
          "persuade"
        ],
        [
          "induce",
          "induce"
        ],
        [
          "choose",
          "choose"
        ],
        [
          "course of action",
          "course of action"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive) To persuade or otherwise induce someone to change his or her views or to choose a different course of action."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "intransitive"
          ],
          "word": "bend to someone's will"
        },
        {
          "english": "someone or something",
          "tags": [
            "transitive"
          ],
          "word": "bend to one's will"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bend someone's will"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bends someone's will",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bending someone's will",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bent someone's will",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bent someone's will",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bend<,,bent> someone's will"
      },
      "expansion": "bend someone's will (third-person singular simple present bends someone's will, present participle bending someone's will, simple past and past participle bent someone's will)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "word": "bend to someone's will"
    },
    {
      "english": "someone or something",
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "word": "bend to one's will"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1882, Charlotte M. Yonge, History of France, ch. 5: The Wars of Religion",
          "text": "[W]hen Catherine tried to draw him to court by proposing a marriage between him and her youngest daughter Margaret, Jeanne left him at home, and went herself to court. Catherine tried in vain to bend her will."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1912, Zane Grey, chapter 20, in Riders of the Purple Sage",
          "text": "[E]ven her love could not avail to bend his will. As if the hold of her arms was that of a child's he loosened it and stepped away.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 January 23, Simon Turnbull, \"Carry on Shearer: Given's plea to captain, Independent (UK)(retrieved 23 Aug 2019)",
          "text": "Despite Shearer's insistence that he intends to hang up his scoring boots at the end of the season, Souness has pledged to keep pestering him to change his mind. Whether the Iron Laddie is for turning remains to be seen, but the pressure to bend his will is being applied from within the Newcastle dressing-room as well as from the manager's office."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To persuade or otherwise induce someone to change his or her views or to choose a different course of action."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "persuade",
          "persuade"
        ],
        [
          "induce",
          "induce"
        ],
        [
          "choose",
          "choose"
        ],
        [
          "course of action",
          "course of action"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive) To persuade or otherwise induce someone to change his or her views or to choose a different course of action."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bend someone's will"
}