Usually means: Plan or aim to do.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word intend:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. intend: Merriam-Webster
  2. intend, intend: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. intend: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. intend: Collins English Dictionary
  5. intend: Vocabulary.com
  6. Intend, intend: Wordnik
  7. intend: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. intend: Wiktionary
  9. intend: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. intend: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. intend: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. intend: Dictionary.com
  13. intend: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. intend: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Intend: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Intend: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. intend: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. intend: Rhymezone
  19. intend: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. intend: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. intend: FreeDictionary.org
  22. intend: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. intend: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. intend: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. intend: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. intend: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intend: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intend: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intend: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (ambitransitive, usually followed by particle "to" + verb, or "on"/"upon" + noun) To fix the mind upon (something, or something to be accomplished); be intent upon
verb:  To fix the mind on; attend to; take care of; superintend; regard.
verb:  (obsolete) To stretch to extend; distend.
verb:  To strain; make tense.
verb:  (obsolete) To intensify; strengthen.
verb:  To apply with energy.
verb:  To bend or turn; direct, as one’s course or journey.
verb:  To design mechanically or artistically; fashion; mold.
verb:  To pretend; counterfeit; simulate.

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