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[ in-ten-ding ] / ɪnˈtɛn dɪŋ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR intending ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivedesigning or aiming to be; prospective or aspiring: intending surgeons. Origin of intendingFirst recorded in 1650–60; intend + -ing2 Words nearby intendingintendance, intendancy, intendant, intended, intendency, intending, intendment, intenerate, Intens, intense, intensifier Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for intendingThe night before he bought a lot of crack-cocaine on credit with no way to pay, intending to kill himself after smoking. A Million Ways to Die in Prison|Daniel Genis|December 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST He also suggested on Twitter that he was intending to continue to work closely with the organization. Amnesty International U.K. Board Chairman Resigns Over Crude Jokes|Nico Hines|August 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST She clambered naked out a third-floor window and hung by her fingertips, intending to let herself drop into the bushes below. Cleveland Kidnapping, Anthony Sowell Case Linked by Indifferent Police|Michael Daly|May 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST Ten years ago he broke into a house owned by a woman named Lola Nixon, intending to commit burglary. Death Penalty Survives In California, But Three-Strikes Law Cut Back|David R. Dow|November 9, 2012|DAILY BEAST
To avoid blame, Cantor claimed that the Democrats were intending to do the same and he just wanted to preempt them. 9 Revelations From Robert Draper’s ‘Do Not Ask What Good We Do’|Ben Jacobs|April 25, 2012|DAILY BEAST In the evening Blinker went to one of his clubs, intending to dine. The Trimmed Lamp|O. Henry By degrees I went back to my old habits, saying never a word to him of the test I was intending to put to him. Graham's Magazine, Vol XXXIII, No. 6, December 1848|Various Now it happened Mrs. Bangs had come home the night before, intending to go away again two days later. Randy of the River|Horatio Alger Jr. I took observations for time, intending to take several sets of lunars, but the day was cloudy, and I only managed to get one. Explorations in Australia|John Forrest I took off my satchel, intending to tie it round my neck after I had undressed. Martin Hyde, The Duke's Messenger|John Masefield
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