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pend
[ pend ]
verb (used without object)
- to remain undecided or unsettled.
- to hang.
- Obsolete. to depend.
pend
/ pɛnd /
verb
- to await judgment or settlement
- dialect.to hang; depend
noun
- an archway or vaulted passage
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pend1
1490–1500; ≪ Latin pendēre to be suspended, hang, depend
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pend1
C15: from Latin pendēre to hang; related to Latin pendere to suspend
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Example Sentences
Neither of us spoke again, and at length the squat log buildings of Pend d' Oreille loomed ahead of us in the night.
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He planned to make an early start from Pend d' Oreille, and thus reach Walsh by riding late the next night.
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Pend upon it boss, Miss Alice is ergwine to bite at the hook fore yu flings out de bate.
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An upbringing in a Dundee “pend” had not acquainted her with shame as an attendant upon sin.
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It is much used by the upper Pend Oreille Indians in going to hunt buffalo east of the mountains.
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