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| Shopping | The largest selection of LEND products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| VERB | 1 | lend, impart, bestow, contribute, add, bring | Bestow a quality on |
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| 2 | lend, loan | Give temporarily | |
| 3 | lend | Have certain characteristics of qualities for something |
| Sounds | leh'nd |
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| Rhymes | amend, append, apprehend, and 47 more rhymes in ehnd... |
| Meaning | Bestow a quality on. |
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| Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s something to somebody |
| Examples | "Her presence lends a certain cachet to the company" |
| Synonyms | impart, bestow, contribute, add, bring |
| Broader | change, alter, modify |
| Narrower | instill, transfuse; tinsel; throw in |
| Meaning | Give temporarily. Let have for a limited time. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody something; Somebody ----s something to somebody |
| Model | They lend cars to the tourists; They lend the tourists their cars |
| Examples | "I will lend you my car" |
| Synonyms | loan |
| Contrary | borrow |
| Broader | give |
| Narrower | hire out, rent out, farm out; advance |
| Adjectives | lendable; lendable |
| Nouns | lender |
| Meaning | Have certain characteristics of qualities for something. Be open or vulnerable to. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody PP; Somebody ----s something PP |
| Examples | "This story would lend itself well to serialization on television"; "The current system lends itself to great abuse" |
| Broader | be |
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