hell-bent

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɛlˌbɛnt/
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• rhymes with -ɛnt
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From hell (“in a manner that uses all of the strength, speed, or effort that a person can summon”) + bent (“determined, insistent”), that is, in the sense “determined like hell”.

30 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: готов на всичко (gotov na vsičko) — recklessly determined to do or achieve something
• Bulgarian: настървен (nastǎrven) — recklessly determined to do or achieve something
• Bulgarian: заинатен (zainaten) — recklessly determined to do or achieve something
• Catalan: entossudit — recklessly determined to do or achieve something
• Catalan: encaparrat — recklessly determined to do or achieve something
• Chinese Mandarin: 拼命的 — recklessly determined to do or achieve something
• Czech: odhodlaný — recklessly determined to do or achieve something
• Czech: pevně odhodlaný — recklessly determined to do or achieve something
• Dutch: vastbesloten — recklessly determined to do or achieve something
• Finnish: jääräpäinen — recklessly determined to do or achieve something
• French: acharné — recklessly determined to do or achieve something
• German: unerbittlich — recklessly determined to do or achieve something
• German: versessen — recklessly determined to do or achieve something
• German: versteift — recklessly determined to do or achieve something
• Hungarian: (a végsőkig) elszánt — recklessly determined to do or achieve something
• Hungarian: (teljességgel) eltökélt — recklessly determined to do or achieve something
• Italian: caparbio — recklessly determined to do or achieve something
• Italian: determinato — recklessly determined to do or achieve something
• Italian: ostinato — recklessly determined to do or achieve something
• Māori: waweroka — recklessly determined to do or achieve something
• Māori: waweruka — recklessly determined to do or achieve something
• Persian: لجوج (lajuj) — recklessly determined to do or achieve something
• Polish: zdeterminowany — recklessly determined to do or achieve something
• Polish: zdesperowany — recklessly determined to do or achieve something
• Russian: готовый на всё (gotovyj na vsjo) — recklessly determined to do or achieve something
• Spanish: empecinado — recklessly determined to do or achieve something
• Spanish: empeñado — recklessly determined to do or achieve something
• Spanish: emperrado — recklessly determined to do or achieve something
• Spanish: encasquetado — recklessly determined to do or achieve something
• Swedish: fast besluten — recklessly determined to do or achieve something