"wend" meaning in English

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      "word": "bewend"
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      "word": "wander"
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        "5": "to turn, change, translate"
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        "4": "to turn, reverse"
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        "2": "vända",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to turn, turn over, veer, direct"
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "is",
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        "4": "to wend, turn, change"
      },
      "expansion": "Icelandic venda (“to wend, turn, change”)",
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      "args": {
        "1": "got",
        "2": "𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to cause to turn"
      },
      "expansion": "Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wandjan, “to cause to turn”)",
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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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      "form": "wends",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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      "form": "wending",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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        "participle",
        "past"
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      "form": "wended",
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        "past"
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    {
      "form": "went",
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        "archaic",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
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      "form": "went",
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        "archaic",
        "past"
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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": "1557 July 1, Virgil, “The Fowrth Boke of Virgiles Aenæis”, in Henry [Howard, Earl] of Surrey, transl., edited by William Bolland, Certain Bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis, Turned into English Meter ([Roxburghe Club Publications; I]), London: […] A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1814, →OCLC:",
          "text": "And ſtill her thought that ſhe was left alone / Uncompanied great viages to wende.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        }
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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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          "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",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
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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",
          "word": "folgen"
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          "sense": "to direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way",
          "word": "verfolgen"
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          "roman": "napravljatʹsja",
          "sense": "to direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way",
          "word": "направляться"
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          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "to direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way",
          "word": "yönelmek"
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          "roman": "prjamuvaty",
          "sense": "to direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way",
          "word": "прямувати"
        }
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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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      "glosses": [
        "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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      "glosses": [
        "To pass away; disappear; depart; vanish."
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          "depart"
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          "vanish",
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        "(intransitive, obsolete) To pass away; disappear; depart; vanish."
      ],
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        "obsolete"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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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": "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.",
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        {
          "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.",
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        {
          "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",
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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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        "(intransitive, obsolete) To turn; make a turn; go round; veer."
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        "To pass away; disappear; depart; vanish."
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        "(intransitive, obsolete) To pass away; disappear; depart; vanish."
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      "word": "отправям се"
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      "word": "folgen"
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      "word": "направляться"
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      "word": "yönelmek"
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      "sense": "to direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way",
      "word": "прямувати"
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    "Pocket (service)"
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