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Meanings of so bent in English

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Usage of so bent in English
1
She got so bent at the last she was practically bent double.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
2
Never was a nation so bent on preserving peace as Russia was.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, ...
3
Though why you are so bent on your own destruction puzzles me.
Molly Bawn
4
If you are so bent on death, you have precipices and ropes.
History Of Ancient Civilization
5
Why are radicals so bent upon exterminating one another through factional splits?
The Tyranny Of Words
6
You'll wonder why I was so bent on getting rid of them.
Maurice Guest
7
You should not be so bent on your own way, young man.
The Precipice
8
I never saw him so bent on any one thing in my life.
The Root of Evil
9
The child-nature in her is so sunny, sportive, so bent on harmless mischief.
A Kentucky Cardinal: A Story
10
NUT: A woman so bent that her hands touched the earth.
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable
11
I don't know why you're getting so bent about it now.
Cibola Burn
12
I don't know why I got so bent out of shape.
Broken angels
13
Aunt Mary is so bent on keeping Polly's milking hand in.
The Golden Bird
14
I was so bent on making sure that you loved me.'
The Odd Women
15
When they are so bent, who will be able to keep them back?
Chinese Literature / Comprising the Analects of Confucius, the S...
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I was so bent with pain I wished I might die.
The grail king
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So bent through the time
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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