"lend itself to" meaning in All languages combined

See lend itself to on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-lend itself to.ogg Forms: lends itself to [present, singular, third-person], lending itself to [participle, present], lent itself to [participle, past], lent itself to [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|lend<,,lent> itself to}} lend itself to (third-person singular simple present lends itself to, present participle lending itself to, simple past and past participle lent itself to)
  1. (transitive, idiomatic) To be suitable for. Tags: idiomatic, transitive Translations (be suitable for): egne seg til (Norwegian Bokmål), pasować (Polish), odpowiadać (Polish), подходить (podxoditʹ) (Russian)

Inflected forms

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