intend

verb

1. (ambitransitive, usually)To fix the mind upon (something, or something to be accomplished); be intent upon

   “He intends to go to university.”

   “They evidently intended some mischief.”

   “After I've finished my contract I never intend to teach teenagers again.”

   “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.”

   “She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.”

2. To fix the mind on; attend to; take care of; superintend; regard.
3. (obsolete)To stretch to extend; distend.
4. To strain; make tense.
5. (obsolete)To intensify; strengthen.

   “Dotage, fatuity, or folly […] is for the most part intended or remitted in particular men, and thereupon some are wiser than others […].”

6. To apply with energy.
7. To bend or turn; direct, as one’s course or journey.
8. To design mechanically or artistically; fashion; mold.
9. To pretend; counterfeit; simulate.