{
    "term": "intend",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "intend",
            "heSheIt": "intends"
        },
        "pastSimple": "intended",
        "pastParticiple": "intended",
        "ingForm": "intending"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to have a plan, result or purpose in your mind when you do something",
            "sensetop": "intend to do somethingintend somebody/something to do somethingintend doing somethingintend somethingintend somebody somethingit is intended that…intend that…",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We finished later than we had intended."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I **fully intended** *(= definitely intended)* to pay for the damage.",
                    "contextForm": "intend to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I **never intended** to hurt you."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The train we had **originally intended** to catch had already left."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The writer clearly intends his readers to identify with the main character.",
                    "contextForm": "intend somebody/something to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I don't intend staying long.",
                    "contextForm": "intend doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company intends a slowdown in expansion.",
                    "contextForm": "intend something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He intended her no harm *(= it was not his plan to harm her)*.",
                    "contextForm": "intend somebody something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is intended that production will start next month.",
                    "contextForm": "it is intended that…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We intend that production will start next month.",
                    "contextForm": "intend that…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She fully intends to continue her sporting career once she has recovered from her injuries."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He intends to retire at the end of this year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I don't intend to make the same mistake again."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She didn't intend to kill him."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They stayed much longer than they'd originally intended."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What do you intend to do now?"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["fully", "clearly", "originally"],
                "preposition": ["for"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to plan that something should have a particular meaning",
            "sensetop": "intend something by somethingintend something as something",
            "labels": "(rather formal)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "What exactly did you intend by that remark?",
                    "contextForm": "intend something by something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He intended it as a joke.",
                    "contextForm": "intend something as something"
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "mean",
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["fully", "clearly", "originally"],
                "preposition": ["for"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtend/",
                "audio": "in/intend/intend__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtendz/",
                "audio": "in/intend/intends__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtendɪd/",
                "audio": "in/intend/intended__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtendɪŋ/",
                "audio": "in/intend/intending__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtend/",
                "audio": "in/intend/intend__us_3.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtendz/",
                "audio": "in/intend/intends__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtendɪd/",
                "audio": "in/intend/intended__us_3.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtendɪŋ/",
                "audio": "in/intend/intending__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English entend (in the sense ‘direct the attention to’), from Old French entendre, from Latin intendere ‘intend, extend, direct’, from in- ‘towards’ + tendere ‘stretch, tend’."
}