bend to one's will

Meaning: (idiomatic,transitive)Tocompelsomeone or something toconformto one's desires.1820,Percy Bysshe Shelley,The Cenci,act 4, sc. 1:Cenci:For Beatrice worse terrors are in store / Tobendherto my will.Lucretia:Oh! to what will? / What cruel sufferings more than she has known / Canst thou inflict?1892,Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet”, inThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes:His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and hebentherto his will.2019August 6,Dwight Garner, "Toni Morrison, a Writer of Many Gifts WhoBentLanguageto Her Will,New York Times(retrieved 23 Aug 2019):Morrison had a superfluity of gifts and, like few other writers of her era,bentlanguageto her will.

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