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with Anu Gargwend
PRONUNCIATION:
(wend)
MEANING:
verb tr., intr.: To travel along a route.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Old English wendan.
NOTES:
If you've ever wondered why we have the peculiar form "went" as the past
tense of the word go (go, went, gone), today's word is the culprit. "Went"
is the archaic past form of "wend". In current usage, the past form of wend
is wended. The word is typically used in the phrase "to wend one's way".
USAGE:
"Federal stimulus dollars are starting to wend their way from Washington
to Watertown and other communities nationwide."Erin Ailworth; A Slice of the Stimulus; The Boston Globe; Apr 29, 2009. See more usage examples of wend in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other. -Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas de Chamfort, writer (1741-1794)
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