"lend itself to" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lends itself to",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lending itself to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lent itself to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lent itself to",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lend<,,lent> itself to"
      },
      "expansion": "lend itself to (third-person singular simple present lends itself to, present participle lending itself to, simple past and past participle lent itself to)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1916, George Santayana, Egotism in German Philosophy",
          "text": "The belief in a romantic chaos lends itself to pessimism, but it also lends itself to absolute self-assertion.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to be suitable for"
      ],
      "id": "en-lend_itself_to-en-verb-bvOQyYHL",
      "links": [
        [
          "suitable",
          "suitable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) to be suitable for"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "be suitable for",
          "word": "egne seg til"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "be suitable for",
          "word": "pasować"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "be suitable for",
          "word": "odpowiadać"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "podxoditʹ",
          "sense": "be suitable for",
          "word": "подходить"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/En-au-lend_itself_to.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lend itself to"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lends itself to",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lending itself to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lent itself to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lent itself to",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lend<,,lent> itself to"
      },
      "expansion": "lend itself to (third-person singular simple present lends itself to, present participle lending itself to, simple past and past participle lent itself to)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1916, George Santayana, Egotism in German Philosophy",
          "text": "The belief in a romantic chaos lends itself to pessimism, but it also lends itself to absolute self-assertion.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to be suitable for"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "suitable",
          "suitable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) to be suitable for"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/En-au-lend_itself_to.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "be suitable for",
      "word": "egne seg til"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "be suitable for",
      "word": "pasować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "be suitable for",
      "word": "odpowiadać"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "podxoditʹ",
      "sense": "be suitable for",
      "word": "подходить"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lend itself to"
}