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Synonyms for intend
ɪnˈtɛndin·tend

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  1. intendverb

    Synonyms:
    foremind, mean

  2. intendverb

    To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished); be intent upon; mean; design; plan; purpose.

    Synonyms:
    foremind, mean

  3. intendverb

    To fix the mind on; attend to; take care of; superintend; regard.

    Synonyms:
    mean, foremind

  4. intendverb

    To stretch to extend; distend.

    Synonyms:
    mean, foremind

  5. intendverb

    To strain; make tense.

    Synonyms:
    mean, foremind

  6. intendverb

    To intensify; strengthen.

    Synonyms:
    mean, foremind

  7. intendverb

    To apply with energy.

    Synonyms:
    mean, foremind

  8. intendverb

    To bend or turn; direct, as one’s course or journey.

    Synonyms:
    foremind, mean

  9. intendverb

    To design mechanically or artistically; fashion; mold.

    Synonyms:
    foremind, mean

  10. intendverb

    To pretend; counterfeit; simulate.

    Synonyms:
    mean, foremind

Princeton's WordNet3.0 / 4 votes

  1. intend, mean, thinkverb

    have in mind as a purpose

    "I mean no harm"; "I only meant to help you"; "She didn't think to harm me"; "We thought to return early that night"

    Synonyms:
    entail, call back, signify, guess, recollect, imagine, mean, consider, retrieve, call up, destine, reckon, suppose, stand for, imply, cogitate, specify, conceive, designate, think, cerebrate, recall, remember, think of, opine, have in mind, believe

  2. intend, destine, designate, specifyverb

    design or destine

    "She was intended to become the director"

    Synonyms:
    fate, qualify, narrow, peg down, show, fix, nail down, delineate, stand for, point, pin down, doom, determine, indicate, particularize, assign, specify, think, signify, delegate, destine, designate, specialize, mean, depute, delimit, specialise, stipulate, delimitate, define, limit, denominate, condition, particularise, set, narrow down, set apart

  3. mean, intendverb

    mean or intend to express or convey

    "You never understand what I mean!"; "what do his words intend?"

    Synonyms:
    stand for, designate, entail, specify, have in mind, destine, signify, mean, think, imply, think of

  4. mean, intend, signify, stand forverb

    denote or connote

    "`maison' means `house' in French"; "An example sentence would show what this word means"

    Synonyms:
    entail, signify, mean, typify, hold still for, represent, destine, stand for, imply, symbolise, specify, have in mind, designate, think, correspond, think of, symbolize

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. intendverb

    Synonyms:
    mean, design, purpose, meditate, contemplate, COMPASS, propose to one's self, have in view, think of, aim at, drive at

  2. intendverb

    Synonyms:
    mean, purpose, design, have the intention, propose to one's self

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. intendverb

    Synonyms:
    design, purpose, propose, contemplate, plan

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "intend":

    intent, intention, hear, intended

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How to use intend in a sentence?

  1. Steve Strand:

    Essentia Health showed nurses they did not intend to bargain with us in good faith, we tried to sit down with management, but Essentia executives told us they intend to follow through with terminations and mandatory flu shots regardless.

  2. Gerald Ford:

    I do not want a honeymoon with you. I want a good marriage. I want progress, and I want problemsolving which requires my best efforts and also your best efforts. I have no need to learn how Congress speaks for the people. As President, I intend to listen. But I also intend to listen to the people themselvesall the peopleas I promised last Friday. I want to be sure that we are all tuned in to the real voice of America.

  3. John Fitzgerald Kennedy:

    The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises-it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook-it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security.

  4. Goa Kerle:

    I am only an effective teacher, not a better teacher because one thing my learners know is, I don't intend to teach them the way to live, I intend to teach them to live the way.

  5. Benjamin Netanyahu:

    I am going to the United States not because I seek a confrontation with the President, but because I must fulfill my obligation to speak up on a matter that affects the very survival of my country, i intend to speak about this issue before the March 24th deadline and I intend to speak in the U.S. Congress because Congress might have an important role on a nuclear deal with Iran.


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