He's hell-bent on finding out who killed his daughter.
Source: tatoeba (874526)
Hell-bent
//ˈhɛlˌbɛnt//
Synonyms for "hell-bent" (18 found)
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Closest matches (4)
Strong matches (5)
Adverb(1 words)
Related words (9)
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1 entriesTranslations
30 translations across 16 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- готов на всичко adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
- заинатен adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
- настървен adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
Catalan
2 entries- encaparrat adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
- entossudit adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 拼命的 adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
Czech
2 entries- odhodlaný adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
- pevně odhodlaný adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
Dutch
1 entries- vastbesloten adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
Finnish
1 entries- jääräpäinen adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
French
1 entries- acharné adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
German
3 entries- unerbittlich adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
- versessen adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
- versteift adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
Hungarian
2 entries- (a végsőkig) elszánt adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
- (teljességgel) eltökélt adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
Italian
3 entries- caparbio adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
- determinato adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
- ostinato adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
Māori
2 entries- waweroka adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
- waweruka adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
Persian
1 entries- لجوج adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
Polish
2 entries- zdesperowany adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
- zdeterminowany adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
Russian
1 entries- готовый на всё adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
Spanish
4 entries- empecinado adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
- emperrado adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
- empeñado adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
- encasquetado adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
Swedish
1 entries- fast besluten adj (recklessly determined to do or achieve something)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Ziri was hell-bent on killing Rima.
Source: tatoeba (10511470)
I am hell-bent on making that right.
Source: tatoeba (11585800)
He was hell-bent on coming first, no matter what.
Source: wiktionary
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