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Also, bent upon . Determined, resolved, as in Jamie is bent on winning the math prize . This phrase, first recorded in 1762, always uses the past participle of the verb bend in the sense of “tend toward.”Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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