intended
Etymology
adj
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Planned. 2002, United States General Accounting Office, Report to congressional committees: Foreign assistance read at https://web.archive.org/web/20060516081005/http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02787.pdf on 14 May 2006 - Funds were spent for intended purposes and not misused. -
(obsolete) Made tense; stretched out; extended; forcible; violent.
noun
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Fiancé or fiancée. That the monsters exceed the boundaries of scale produces much stageplay for the male suitors. For instance, when they must approach their "intendeds," the suitors slowly and with great trepidation approach, quickly speak, and scurry away like the frightened bunnies they are; when they must make actual contact, Fetherfool runs up and down a ladder to salute the Giant. 2003, Cynthia Lowenthal, Performing Identities on the Restoration Stage, Southern Illinois University Press, page 147
verb
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simple past and past participle of intend His purpose was to discover how long these guests intended to stay. 1917, Joseph Conrad, Victory, published 2006
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