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lendlend /lɛnd/ ●●● S3 W3 verb (past tense and past participle lent /lɛnt/) ETYMOLOGYlendOrigin: Old English lænan, from læn VERB TABLElend |
Present | I, you, we, they | lend | | he, she, it | lends | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | lent | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have lent | | he, she, it | has lent | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had lent | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will lend | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have lent |
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Present | I | am lending | | he, she, it | is lending | | you, we, they | are lending | Past | I, he, she, it | was lending | | you, we, they | were lending | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been lending | | he, she, it | has been lending | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been lending | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be lending | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been lending |
1 BANK [intransitive, transitive] if a bank or financial institution lends you money, it lets you borrow money if you agree to pay it back with an additional amount of money: lend to I doubt they’ll lend to us, with our credit histories.lend something to somebody U.S. banks lent billions of dollars to the country.lend somebody something The bank agreed to lend me the money at 4.4% interest.2LET somebody BORROW [transitive] to let someone borrow money from you or use something that you own, which he or she agrees to give back later: lend somebody something Could you lend me $5 until tomorrow?lend something to somebody “Where’d you get the car, Mimi?” “A friend lent it to me.”3GIVE something A QUALITY [transitive] formal to give an event or situation a particular quality that it would not normally have had: lend something to something Whiskey lends an interesting flavor to the sauce.4lend (somebody) a hand to help someone do something, especially something that needs physical effort: Lend me a hand with this box.5something lends itself to something used to say that something is appropriate to be used in a particular way: Fish does not lend itself well to reheating.6lend an ear to listen to someone in a sympathetic way7lend support/assistance to support or help someone8lend weight/credibility/credence to something to make an opinion, belief, etc. seem more acceptable or likely to be correct: The new evidence lends weight to the prosecution’s case.9lend your name to something to allow your name to be used to support something, sell something, etc.[Origin: Old English lænan, from læn]—lender noun [countable] |