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{
"term": "intend",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "intend",
"heSheIt": "intends"
},
"pastSimple": "intended",
"pastParticiple": "intended",
"ingForm": "intending"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to have a plan, result or purpose in your mind when you do something",
"sensetop": "intend to do somethingintend somebody/something to do somethingintend doing somethingintend somethingintend somebody somethingit is intended that…intend that…",
"labels": "(British English)",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "We finished later than we had intended."
},
{
"text": "I **fully intended** *(= definitely intended)* to pay for the damage.",
"contextForm": "intend to do something"
},
{
"text": "I **never intended** to hurt you."
},
{
"text": "The train we had **originally intended** to catch had already left."
},
{
"text": "The writer clearly intends his readers to identify with the main character.",
"contextForm": "intend somebody/something to do something"
},
{
"text": "I don't intend staying long.",
"contextForm": "intend doing something"
},
{
"text": "The company intends a slowdown in expansion.",
"contextForm": "intend something"
},
{
"text": "He intended her no harm *(= it was not his plan to harm her)*.",
"contextForm": "intend somebody something"
},
{
"text": "It is intended that production will start next month.",
"contextForm": "it is intended that…"
},
{
"text": "We intend that production will start next month.",
"contextForm": "intend that…"
},
{
"text": "She fully intends to continue her sporting career once she has recovered from her injuries."
},
{
"text": "He intends to retire at the end of this year."
},
{
"text": "I don't intend to make the same mistake again."
},
{
"text": "She didn't intend to kill him."
},
{
"text": "They stayed much longer than they'd originally intended."
},
{
"text": "What do you intend to do now?"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["fully", "clearly", "originally"],
"preposition": ["for"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to plan that something should have a particular meaning",
"sensetop": "intend something by somethingintend something as something",
"labels": "(rather formal)",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "What exactly did you intend by that remark?",
"contextForm": "intend something by something"
},
{
"text": "He intended it as a joke.",
"contextForm": "intend something as something"
}
],
"synonyms": "mean",
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["fully", "clearly", "originally"],
"preposition": ["for"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtend/",
"audio": "in/intend/intend__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtendz/",
"audio": "in/intend/intends__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtendɪd/",
"audio": "in/intend/intended__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtendɪŋ/",
"audio": "in/intend/intending__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtend/",
"audio": "in/intend/intend__us_3.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtendz/",
"audio": "in/intend/intends__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtendɪd/",
"audio": "in/intend/intended__us_3.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtendɪŋ/",
"audio": "in/intend/intending__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English entend (in the sense ‘direct the attention to’), from Old French entendre, from Latin intendere ‘intend, extend, direct’, from in- ‘towards’ + tendere ‘stretch, tend’."
}