Wend

Quick meaning: Wend is a verb meaning (transitive) To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.

Meaning

(transitive) To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete, transitive) To turn; change, to adapt.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To turn; make a turn; go round; veer.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To pass away; disappear; depart; vanish.
4. (obsolete, UK, law) A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit

Example Sentences

We wended our weary way westward.

with the prowe at both ends, so as they need not to wend or hold water

And ſtill her thought that ſhe was left alone / Uncompanied great viages to wende.

This evidentiary lead had then wended its way from the NCA’s child exploitation investigations team to the computer crime team

Word Forms

• wends
• wending
• wended
• went
• wendest
• wendedst
• wendeth

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