pend
Americanverb (used without object)
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to remain undecided or unsettled.
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to hang.
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Obsolete. to depend.
verb
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to await judgment or settlement
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dialect to hang; depend
noun
Etymology
Origin of pend
1490–1500; ≪ Latin pendēre to be suspended, hang, depend
Example Sentences
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In years when Pend Oreille has more kokanee, it works the opposite way, he said.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2024
Seattle City Light relies on hydropower for more than three-quarters of its electricity generation, with about half coming from its dams on the Skagit River and Boundary Dam on the Pend Oreille River.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 7, 2023
The dam, on the Perkins Slough tributary of the Pend Oreille River, was constructed without a Clean Water Act permit from the Army Corps of Engineers, the EPA said.
From Washington Times • Aug. 4, 2023
Mr. Maslonka, of Spokane, contended in a responding court filing that the dam was for irrigation of his property and to prevent the Pend Oreille River from inundating it, according to the Spokesman-Review.
From Washington Times • Aug. 4, 2023
Here was no such spectacular meeting of waters as occurs when the Pend d’Oreille and Columbia spring together, for the country is low and level, and the mouth of the Snake broad and shallow.
From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)
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