hell-bent

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

~ on sth / on doing sth determined to do sth even though the results may be bad: He seems hell-bent on drinking himself to death.

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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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hell-bentEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary hell-bentEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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