wend
verb/wend/
/wend/
[transitive, intransitive] (old use or literary)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they wend | /wend/ /wend/ |
| he / she / it wends | /wendz/ /wendz/ |
| past simple wended | /ˈwendɪd/ /ˈwendɪd/ |
| past participle wended | /ˈwendɪd/ /ˈwendɪd/ |
| -ing form wending | /ˈwendɪŋ/ /ˈwendɪŋ/ |
- wend (your way) (+ adv./prep.) to move or travel slowly somewhere
- Leo wended his way home through the wet streets.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryWend is used with these nouns as the object:- way
Word OriginOld English wendan ‘to turn, depart’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German wenden, also to wind2.Definitions on the go
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