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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A judge temporarily blocked some elements of his schools legislation while cases pend.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023
Richard Mortimer's excitement was dampened by professional botanists, pend ing further inquiry.
From Time Magazine Archive
As sundered ocean tides that shoreward tend, Now past and future o'er the present pend, Till on the narrow isthmus sea meets sea, 2020 And time no longer parts eternity.
From Elias An Epic of the Ages by Orson F. Whitney
But let that passe, when went your harebrainde sonne, That Cuckow, vertue-singing, hatefull byrde, To guarde the safetie of his better part, Which he hath pend within the childish coope Of young Pertillos sweete securitie?
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
Who in those Volumes at her motion pend, Vnto Creation's Alpha doth extend.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
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