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intended en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /ɪnˈtɛndɪd/

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Planned.
   • 2002, United States General Accounting Office, Report to congressional committees: Foreign assistance read at https://web.archive.org/web/20060516081005/http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02787.pdf on 14 May 2006 - Funds were spent for intended purposes and not misused.
2. (not-comparable, obsolete) Made tense; stretched out; extended; forcible; violent.
   • The same advauncing high above his head, With sharpe intended sting so rude him smott 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Antonyms

unintended

Deriveds

intendedly · well-intended · pun intended · intendedness · no pun intended · misintended

Translations (21)

fi aiottu (planned) · cs plánovaný (planned) · be наўмысны (planned) · cs zamýšlený (planned) · sv ämnad (planned) · el επιδιωκόμενος (planned) · sv avsedd (planned) · hi विवक्षित (planned) · fr planifié (planned) · fr voulu (planned) · it disciplinato (planned) · sv tilltänkt (planned) · fi tarkoitettu (planned) · dsb myslony (planned) · bg очакван (planned) · be запланаваны (planned) · es intencionarse (planned) · de gedacht (planned) · es intencionado (planned) · it previsto (planned) · bg планиран (planned)

intended en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ɪnˈtɛndɪd/

Meanings

1. Fiancé or fiancée.
   • His mother had died lately, watched over, as I was told, by his Intended. 1899 April, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MII, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part III (Conclusion), page 651:
   • That the monsters exceed the boundaries of scale produces much stageplay for the male suitors. For instance, when they must approach their "intendeds," the suitors slowly and with great trepidation approach, quickly speak, and scurry away like the frightened bunnies they are; when they must make actual contact, Fetherfool runs up and down a ladder to salute the Giant. 2003, Cynthia Lowenthal, Performing Identities on the Restoration Stage, Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 147:

Forms

intended en · VERB

Pronunciation

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• /ɪnˈtɛndɪd/

Meanings

1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of intend
   form of intend
   • His purpose was to discover how long these guests intended to stay. 1912 October – 1914 May 29 (date written), Joseph Conrad, Victory, London: Methuen & Co. […], published 24 September 1915, →OCLC: