"bend to one's will" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bends to one's will",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bending to one's will",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bent to one's will",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bent to one's will",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bend<,,bent> to one's will"
      },
      "expansion": "bend to one's will (third-person singular simple present bends to one's will, present participle bending to one's will, simple past and past participle bent to one'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"
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          "source": "w"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci, act 4, sc. 1",
          "text": "Cenci: For Beatrice worse terrors are in store / To bend her to my will.\nLucretia: Oh! to what will? / What cruel sufferings more than she has known / Canst thou inflict?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet”, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes",
          "text": "His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he bent her to his will.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 August 6, Dwight Garner, \"Toni Morrison, a Writer of Many Gifts Who Bent Language to Her Will, New York Times (retrieved 23 Aug 2019)",
          "text": "Morrison had a superfluity of gifts and, like few other writers of her era, bent language to her will."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To compel someone or something to conform to one's desires."
      ],
      "id": "en-bend_to_one's_will-en-verb-gw6cU5Ud",
      "links": [
        [
          "compel",
          "compel"
        ],
        [
          "conform",
          "conform"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive) To compel someone or something to conform to one's desires."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "intransitive"
          ],
          "word": "bend to someone's will"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "transitive"
          ],
          "word": "bend someone's will"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bend to one's will"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bends to one's will",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bending to one's will",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bent to one's will",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bent to one's will",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bend<,,bent> to one's will"
      },
      "expansion": "bend to one's will (third-person singular simple present bends to one's will, present participle bending to one's will, simple past and past participle bent to one's will)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "word": "bend to someone's will"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "word": "bend someone's will"
    }
  ],
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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": "1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci, act 4, sc. 1",
          "text": "Cenci: For Beatrice worse terrors are in store / To bend her to my will.\nLucretia: Oh! to what will? / What cruel sufferings more than she has known / Canst thou inflict?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet”, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes",
          "text": "His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he bent her to his will.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 August 6, Dwight Garner, \"Toni Morrison, a Writer of Many Gifts Who Bent Language to Her Will, New York Times (retrieved 23 Aug 2019)",
          "text": "Morrison had a superfluity of gifts and, like few other writers of her era, bent language to her will."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To compel someone or something to conform to one's desires."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "compel",
          "compel"
        ],
        [
          "conform",
          "conform"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive) To compel someone or something to conform to one's desires."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bend to one's will"
}