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"3": "",
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"2": "𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽",
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English wenden, from Old English wendan (“to turn, change, translate”), from Proto-West Germanic *wandijan, from Proto-Germanic *wandijaną (“to turn”), causative of *windaną (“to wind”), from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ- (“to turn, wind, braid”).\nCognate with Dutch wenden (“to turn”), German wenden (“to turn, reverse”), Danish vende (“to turn”), Norwegian Bokmål vende (“to turn”), Norwegian Nynorsk venda (“to turn”), Swedish vända (“to turn, turn over, veer, direct”), Icelandic venda (“to wend, turn, change”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wandjan, “to cause to turn”). Related to wind (Etymology 2).",
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"To turn; change, to adapt."
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"(transitive, obsolete) To turn; change, to adapt."
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"text": "We wended our weary way westward.",
"type": "example"
},
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"ref": "1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Realised Ideals”, in The French Revolution: A History",
"text": "The Merovingian Kings, slowly wending on their bullock-carts through the streets of Paris, with their long hair flowing, have all wended slowly on,—into Eternity.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2021 October 1, Robin Craig, “In term-opener, justices will hear Mississippi’s complaint that Tennessee is stealing its groundwater”, in SCOTUSblog",
"text": "Like most original jurisdiction water cases, Mississippi v. Tennessee has taken a few years to wend its way to Supreme Court oral argument, and that argument will be keyed to the parties’ objections to the report of a court-appointed special master.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022 April 7, Andy Greenberg, “Inside the Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site”, in WIRED",
"text": "This evidentiary lead had then wended its way from the NCA’s child exploitation investigations team to the computer crime team",
"type": "quotation"
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"(transitive) To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way."
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "trǎgvam",
"sense": "to direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way",
"word": "тръгвам"
},
{
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "otpravjam se",
"sense": "to direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way",
"word": "отправям се"
},
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"sense": "to direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way",
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},
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{
"_dis1": "0 98 1 1",
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"sense": "to direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way",
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"word": "namířit si to"
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"sense": "to direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way",
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"word": "направляться"
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"ref": "c. 1611, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse on the Invention of Ships &c.",
"text": "with the prowe at both ends, so as they need not to wend or hold water",
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"To turn; make a turn; go round; veer."
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"(intransitive, obsolete) To turn; make a turn; go round; veer."
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"To pass away; disappear; depart; vanish."
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"4": "to wend, turn, change"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic venda (“to wend, turn, change”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "got",
"2": "𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽",
"3": "",
"4": "to cause to turn"
},
"expansion": "Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wandjan, “to cause to turn”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
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"1": "en",
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},
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"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English wenden, from Old English wendan (“to turn, change, translate”), from Proto-West Germanic *wandijan, from Proto-Germanic *wandijaną (“to turn”), causative of *windaną (“to wind”), from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ- (“to turn, wind, braid”).\nCognate with Dutch wenden (“to turn”), German wenden (“to turn, reverse”), Danish vende (“to turn”), Norwegian Bokmål vende (“to turn”), Norwegian Nynorsk venda (“to turn”), Swedish vända (“to turn, turn over, veer, direct”), Icelandic venda (“to wend, turn, change”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wandjan, “to cause to turn”). Related to wind (Etymology 2).",
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{
"form": "wends",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
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{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"en:Law"
],
"glosses": [
"A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit"
],
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[
"law",
"law#English"
],
[
"extent",
"extent"
],
[
"ground",
"ground"
],
[
"perambulation",
"perambulation"
],
[
"circuit",
"circuit"
]
],
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"(obsolete, UK, law) A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit"
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"obsolete"
],
"topics": [
"law"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/wɛnd/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"UK"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛnd"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-wend.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-wend.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-wend.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-wend.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-wend.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "wend"
}
{
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{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "wend",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"German entries with incorrect language header",
"German non-lemma forms",
"German terms with audio links",
"German verb forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "wenden"
}
],
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"singular imperative of wenden"
],
"links": [
[
"wenden",
"wenden#German"
]
],
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"form-of",
"imperative",
"singular"
]
}
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"audio": "De-wend.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/59/De-wend.ogg/De-wend.ogg.mp3",
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}
{
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{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "wend",
"name": "head"
}
],
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"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "wynd"
}
],
"categories": [
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English nouns"
],
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"Alternative form of wynd"
],
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[
"wynd",
"wynd#Middle English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "wend"
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