"bent on" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more bent on",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most bent on",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-adj"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He was bent on reaching the end of the book, even if it meant staying up all night.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 August 17, Roger Cohen, “For America, and Afghanistan, the Post-9/11 Era Ends Painfully”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "A colossal bipartisan investment of American force, treasure and diplomacy to defeat a hostile ideology bent on the creation of an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has failed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Completely determined; obstinate."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "determine",
          "determine"
        ],
        [
          "obstinate",
          "obstinate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Completely determined; obstinate."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "hell-bent"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
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    },
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
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  ],
  "word": "bent on"
}

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    {
      "form": "more bent on",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most bent on",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "hell-bent"
    }
  ],
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        "English terms with usage examples",
        "Rhymes:English/ɒn",
        "Rhymes:English/ɒn/2 syllables"
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        {
          "text": "He was bent on reaching the end of the book, even if it meant staying up all night.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 August 17, Roger Cohen, “For America, and Afghanistan, the Post-9/11 Era Ends Painfully”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "A colossal bipartisan investment of American force, treasure and diplomacy to defeat a hostile ideology bent on the creation of an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has failed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Completely determined; obstinate."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "determine",
          "determine"
        ],
        [
          "obstinate",
          "obstinate"
        ]
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) Completely determined; obstinate."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
      ]
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