Word Finder - intended

definition

(usually followed by the particle "to") To hope; to wish (something, or something to be accomplished); be intent upon

example

He intends to go to university.

synonyms

• design
• mean
• plan
• purpose

definition

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

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To stretch to extend; distend.

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To strain; make tense.

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To intensify; strengthen.

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To apply with energy.

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

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To design mechanically or artistically; fashion; mold.

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To pretend; counterfeit; simulate.

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Fiancé or fiancée.

definition

Planned.

example

2002, United States General Accounting Office, Report to congressional committees: Foreign assistance read at http//www.gao.gov/new.items/d02787.pdf on 14 May 2006 - Funds were spent for intended purposes and not misused.

definition

Made tense; stretched out; extended; forcible; violent.

They were wrong, and she intended to prove it.

He intended to take her as his mate, Rhyn.

It was intended to encourage her, but it was more a distraction.

I had made a promise to her and I intended to keep it, regardless of the outcome.

You knew she intended it for you.

Darkyn spoke as if he intended for her to remain that way, at least through the end of the deal.

He intended for the problem to right itself in his absence, once she adjusted.

As if sensing what he intended to do, Kris took his arm.

When I realized she intended to get you drunk it went all through me.

He deserved an apology, and she intended to give him one - if she ever saw him again.

I swear, I never intended for things to go that far.

The intended victim was named Annie Gauthier, of Barre.

He intended to keep his relationship to their zookeeper a secret.

There was no point in telling him she had intended to sleep in the car.

There was enough to do around here and she intended to earn her pay - without supervision.

She fully intended to return the gown and tanzanite jewelry dripping off her ears and neck, but for the night, she enjoyed feeling like Cinderella.

Miss Keller's autobiography contains almost everything that she ever intended to publish.

Having crossed over, by a forced march, to the Tula road beyond the Pakhra, the Russian commanders intended to remain at Podolsk and had no thought of the Tarutino position; but innumerable circumstances and the reappearance of French troops who had for a time lost touch with the Russians, and projects of giving battle, and above all the abundance of provisions in Kaluga province, obliged our army to turn still more to the south and to cross from the Tula to the Kaluga road and go to Tarutino, which was between the roads along which those supplies lay.

She had always wanted children, although this wasn't the way she had intended to start a family.

I met him as he rode into town, and he said that he intended to stop at this hotel.

During the period 1958 to 1961, an initiative called "The Great Leap Forward" was intended to increase the production of grain and other agricultural products.

We shall speak, yes, and sing, too, as God intended we should speak and sing.

Kutuzov never talked of "forty centuries looking down from the Pyramids," of the sacrifices he offered for the fatherland, or of what he intended to accomplish or had accomplished; in general he said nothing about himself, adopted no pose, always appeared to be the simplest and most ordinary of men, and said the simplest and most ordinary things.

The Emperor intended to join the army personally in a few days' time.

He called on Count Rostopchin and on some acquaintances who were back in Moscow, and he intended to leave for Petersburg two days later.

She had some money tucked away in a cookie jar in the kitchen and she intended to pay him something, whether he liked it or not.

It was intended as a short kiss, but it didn't work out that way.

They watched her like they intended to make her their dinner.

He had suggested she breed Casper to another stud, and she had intended to, but Ed got to her first.

I intended to have him killed, before his mother acted against me.

What would Darkyn want with past-Deidre's soul, unless he intended to add it to the Army of Souls?

One of us was intended for Gabriel.

She drew near, both hopeful and dreading what he intended to do.

Rhyn said nothing more, aware it was all he might ever have to remind him of the mortal intended to be his mate.

Evelyn-- or Romas-- never intended for her to leave.

She intended to walk away but found herself stuck, gazing up at him.

With this object he intended to meet the regiment; so the worse the condition it was in, the better pleased the commander- in-chief would be.

Then he lifted his head, stretched his neck as if he intended to say something, but immediately, with affected indifference, began to hum to himself, producing a queer sound which immediately broke off.

The whole French army, and even Napoleon himself with his staff, were not on the far side of the streams and hollows of Sokolnitz and Schlappanitz beyond which we intended to take up our position and begin the action, but were on this side, so close to our own forces that Napoleon with the naked eye could distinguish a mounted man from one on foot.

Those speeches were intended for quite other conditions, they were for the most part to be spoken at a moment of victory and triumph, generally when he was dying of wounds and the sovereign had thanked him for heroic deeds, and while dying he expressed the love his actions had proved.

Rostov submissively unbent the corner of his card and, instead of the six thousand he had intended, carefully wrote twenty-one.

It always seemed to him that there was something not quite right about this intended marriage.

Having arranged matters thus, Denisov and Dolokhov intended, without reporting matters to the higher command, to attack and seize that convoy with their own small forces.

Denisov himself intended going with the esaul and Petya to the edge of the forest where it reached out to Shamshevo, to have a look at the part of the French bivouac they were to attack next day.

Nervous, she stabbed him harder than she intended to, and Jule groaned, closing his eyes.

Lilith had been intended for Kris and was pregnant with his son when Rhyn killed her and the baby both.

He'd always intended to bed her when she was ready for him, but he'd never thought that moment would be now, if at all.

He intended to prove he was responsible.

A Cnossian didrachm exhibits on one side the labyrinth, on the other the Minotaur surrounded by a semicircle of small balls, probably intended for stars; it is to be noted that one of the monster' s names was Asterius.

It was not intended that Arabs should settle in the conquered lands except as armies of occupation.