lend
/ˈlɛnd/ verb A2- To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned. · I will only lend you my car if you fill up the tank.· Where is that hundred euros I lent you months ago?
- To make a loan.
- To be suitable or applicable, to fit. · Poems do not lend themselves to translation easily.· The long history of the past does not lend itself to a simple black and white interpretation.
- To afford; to grant or furnish in general. · Can you lend me some assistance?· The famous director lent his name to the new film.
- To borrow.
He/she/it lends · Past lent · Past participle lent · -ing form lending
Verb forms
- Base form
- lend
- He/she/it
- lends
- Past
- lent
- Past participle
- lent
- -ing form
- lending
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
From the library
I lent you money, and you returned it; that’s like good neighbors, and we are quits.”
A STAG asked a Sheep to lend him a measure of wheat, and said that the Wolf would be his surety.
The selection of words would hardly lend itself to the sending of general messages.
He lent me a book; but I don’t mind saying that it was a bit above my head, though I had a good Aberdeen upbringing.
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