Definition of Intend

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Intend

To stretch' to extend; to distend.

To strain; to make tense.

To intensify; to strengthen.

To apply with energy.

To bend or turn; to direct, as one's course or journey.

To fix the mind on; to attend to; to take care of; to superintend; to regard.

To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished); to be intent upon; to mean; to design; to plan; to purpose; -- often followed by an infinitely with to, or a dependent clause with that; as, he intends to go; he intends that she shall remain.

To design mechanically or artistically; to fashion; to mold.

To pretend; to counterfeit; to simulate.

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Intend Quotations

I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.
Barack Obama

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
Groucho Marx

I intend to live forever, or die trying.
Groucho Marx

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
Steven Wright

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
Plato

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.
Earl Nightingale

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
Frederick Douglass

I don't intend to retire.
Bobby Knight

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Intend Translations

intend in Afrikaans is bedoel
intend in Danish is sigte
intend in Dutch is beogen, bedoelen, mikken op, mikken
intend in German is beabsichtigen, beabsichtigen, bestimmen
intend in Norwegian is ha til hensikt
intend in Portuguese is tencionar, pretenda
intend in Swedish is planera

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