Pend

Quick meaning: Pend is a verb meaning (transitive) To consider pending; to delay or postpone (something).

Meaning

(transitive) To consider pending; to delay or postpone (something).

More Meanings

1. (India) oil cake
2. (Scotland) An archway; especially, a vaulted passageway leading through a tenement-style building from the main street, giving access to the rear of the building or an internal courtyard.
3. (obsolete) To hang down; to cause something to hang down
4. (obsolete, Scotland) To arch over (something); to vault.
5. (obsolete) To hang in reliance on; to depend (on or upon); to be contingent on.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To pen; to confine.

Example Sentences

pending upon certain powerful motives

soche frowarde creatures as many women are, ought rather to be pended vp in a cage of iron

The latest list of detainees would be pended and they would be allowed to return to their homes on a temporary basis.

Word Forms

• pends
• pending
• pended

Synonyms for pend

Depending on context, synonyms include alley.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hang, outstanding, suspend, fall, weep, droop.

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