intend
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Etymology
From Middle English intenden, entenden ("direct (one’s) attention towards"), borrowed from Old French entendre, from Latin intendo.
Pronunciation Verbintend (intends, present participle intending; simple past and past participle intended)
- (ambitransitive, usually followed by particle "to" + verb, or "on"/"upon" + noun) To fix the mind upon (something, or something to be accomplished); be intent upon
- Synonyms: mean, design, plan, purpose, foremind, mint
- He intends to go to university.
- They evidently intended some mischief.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC ↗:
- The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
- To fix the mind on; attend to; take care of; superintend; regard.
- (obsolete) To stretch to extend; distend.
- To strain; make tense.
- (obsolete) To intensify; strengthen.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC ↗:, Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.139:
- Dotage, fatuity, or folly […] is for the most part intended or remitted in particular men, and thereupon some are wiser than others […].
- To apply with energy.
- To bend or turn; direct, as one’s course or journey.
- To design mechanically or artistically; fashion; mold.
- To pretend; counterfeit; simulate.
Conjugation of intend
infinitive | (to) intend | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | intend | intended | |
2nd-person singular | intend, intendest† | intended, intendedst† | |
3rd-person singular | intends, intendeth† | intended | |
plural | intend | ||
subjunctive | intend | intended | |
imperative | intend | — | |
participles | intending | intended |
†Archaic or obsolete.
- French: avoir l'intention, prévoir
- German: beabsichtigen, vorhaben, intendieren (formal)
- Italian: intendere, avere in animo
- Portuguese: pretender, tencionar
- Russian: намерева́ться
- Spanish: pretender, planear, intencionar, intentar
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