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WEND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wend mean?
• WEND (verb)
The verb WEND has 1 sense:
1. direct one's course or way
Familiarity information: WEND used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they wend ... he / she / it wends
Past simple: wended
Past participle: wended
-ing form: wending
... he / she / it wends Past simple: wended
Past participle: wended
-ing form: wending
Sense 1
Meaning:
Direct one's course or way
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Context example:
wend your way through the crowds
Hypernyms (to "wend" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something PP
Context examples
We entered the wood, and wended homeward.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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