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wend
1[ wend ]
verb (used with object)
- to pursue or direct (one's way).
verb (used without object)
- to proceed or go.
Wend
2[ wend ]
noun
- a member of a Slavic people of E Germany; Sorb.
wend
1/ wɛnd /
verb
- to direct (one's course or way); travel
wend one's way home
Wend
2/ wɛnd /
noun
- (esp in medieval European history) a Sorb; a member of the Slavonic people who inhabited the area between the Rivers Saale and Oder in the early Middle Ages and were conquered by Germanic invaders by the 12th century See also Lusatia
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Example Sentences
Is that crazy kid of yours going to graduate from eighth grade and eventually wend his way to college?
Farquhar may have seen the old Show, which the Restoration had naturally brought back, wend its noisy way to Kingsland.
Take up the papers, and now wend we merrily to dine thou wot'st where.
It was common for coy damsels and staid matrons to wend their way to Lizzie's cot about twilight, to have their fortunes spaed.
"Dirty Wendish pigs," they said (which was their favourite malediction, though they themselves were Wend of the Wends).
When the King set out in France, he had his gaiters greased; and the Queen asked him: whither will wend these damoiseaux?
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