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
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill
I intend to live forever, or die trying.
Groucho Marx
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
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
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
Barack Obama
Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
Tupac Shakur
I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
Steven Wright
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 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
They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase.
Marilyn Manson
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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