Wend

/wɛnd/ · verb

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To turn; change, to adapt.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To turn; make a turn; go round; veer.
4. (obsolete, intransitive) To pass away; disappear; depart; vanish.
5. (obsolete, UK, law) A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit

Example Sentences

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

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

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