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wend

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/wɛnd/
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/wɛnd/ · /wɪ̟nd/

Definition of wend

7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.
    “We wended our weary way westward.”
    “And ſtill her thought that ſhe was left alone / Uncompanied great viages to wende.”
    “The Merovingian Kings, slowly wending on their bullock-carts through the streets of Paris, with their long hair flowing, have all wended slowly on,—into Eternity.”
    “Like most original jurisdiction water cases, Mississippi v. Tennessee has taken a few years to wend its way to Supreme Court oral argument, and that argument will be keyed to the parties’ objections to the report of a court-appointed special master.”
    “This evidentiary lead had then wended its way from the NCA’s child exploitation investigations team to the computer crime team”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.
    “We wended our weary way westward.”
    “And ſtill her thought that ſhe was left alone / Uncompanied great viages to wende.”
    “The Merovingian Kings, slowly wending on their bullock-carts through the streets of Paris, with their long hair flowing, have all wended slowly on,—into Eternity.”
    “Like most original jurisdiction water cases, Mississippi v. Tennessee has taken a few years to wend its way to Supreme Court oral argument, and that argument will be keyed to the parties’ objections to the report of a court-appointed special master.”
    “This evidentiary lead had then wended its way from the NCA’s child exploitation investigations team to the computer crime team”
  2. (obsolete, transitive)To turn; change, to adapt.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete)To turn; make a turn; go round; veer.
    “with the prowe at both ends, so as they need not to wend or hold water”
  4. (intransitive, obsolete)To pass away; disappear; depart; vanish.

noun

  1. (UK, obsolete)A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit
  2. A member of a Slavic people from the borders of Germany and Poland; a Sorb; a Kashub.
  3. A Slavic person living anywhere in the vicinity of German-speaking areas.

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Etymology

From Middle English wenden, from Old English wendan (“to turn, change, translate”), from Proto-West Germanic *wandijan, from Proto-Germanic *wandijaną (“to turn”), causative of *windaną (“to wind”), from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ- (“to…

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From Middle English wenden, from Old English wendan (“to turn, change, translate”), from Proto-West Germanic *wandijan, from Proto-Germanic *wandijaną (“to turn”), causative of *windaną (“to wind”), from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ- (“to turn, wind, braid”). Cognate with Dutch wenden (“to turn”), German wenden (“to turn, reverse”), Danish vende (“to turn”), Norwegian Bokmål vende (“to turn”), Norwegian Nynorsk venda (“to turn”), Swedish vända (“to turn, turn over, veer, direct”), Icelandic venda (“to wend, turn, change”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wandjan, “to cause to turn”). Related to wind (Etymology 2).

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