depend
/dɪˈpɛnd/ verb A2- To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition · We would like to go skiing, but it depends on the amount of snow.
- To trust; to have confidence; to rely. · we should all be able to depend on the word or assurance of our friends· we depend on the mailman to come at the usual time.
- To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above, especially in heraldry, where a badge, decoration, or element is suspended from another part of an achievement of arms.
- To cause to be contingent or dependent on; to set as a necessity.
He/she/it depends · Past depended · Past participle depended · -ing form depending
Verb forms
- Base form
- depend
- He/she/it
- depends
- Past
- depended
- Past participle
- depended
- -ing form
- depending
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The theories which I have expressed there, and which appear to you to be so chimerical are really extremely practical—so practical that I depend upon them for my bread and cheese.”
“You may depend on it,” replied the other, “for Mrs.
His thin but wiry legs were arrayed in a pair of richly embroidered clocked stockings, evidently of English manufacture, while from his three-cornered hat depended a long streaming knot of white and blue ribbons.
“Now the mischief is out; depend upon it the custom-house people went rummaging about the ship in our absence, and discovered poor Dantès’ hidden treasures.”
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