bent
Folded or dented out of its usual shape.
Other meanings
Determined or insistent; inclined, set.
“He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why.”
Annoyed; out of sorts; having a bee in one's bonnet.
“She was bent about "certain kinds of people" having civil rights; she wanted to roll those back.”
Example sentences
Word history
From Middle English "benden" (to bend).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “bent” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.