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
In candent ire the solar splendour flames; The foles, languescent, pend from arid rames; His humid front the cive, anheling, wipes, And dreams of erring on ventiferous ripes.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
Crecian pend - When Breitmann says "Dat pend of the bow ish the Crecian pend," it is a rather eqivocal compliment.
From The Breitmann Ballads by Charles Godfrey Leland
Here you air all pend up by yerselves, talkin about the sins of a world you don't know nothin of.
From The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 1: Essays, Sketches, and Letters by Artemus Ward
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