pend
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 4
/pɛnd/(UK)
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/pɛnd/(UK) · /pɪnd/
Definition of pend
7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (obsolete)To hang down; to cause something to hang down
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verb
- (obsolete)To hang down; to cause something to hang down
- (Scotland, obsolete)To arch over (something); to vault.
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(obsolete)To hang in reliance on; to depend (on or upon); to be contingent on.
“pending upon certain powerful motives”
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(obsolete, transitive)To pen; to confine.
“soche frowarde creatures as many women are, ought rather to be pended vp in a cage of iron”
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(transitive)To consider pending; to delay or postpone (something).
“The latest list of detainees would be pended and they would be allowed to return to their homes on a temporary basis.”
noun
- (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.
- (India, uncountable)oil cake
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French pendre (“to hang”), from Late Latin pendĕre, from Latin pendēre.
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