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Lend

verb

(past & past part. lent; pres. part. lending)

Bestow a quality on. Synonyms: add, bestow, bring, contribute, impart. "The music added a lot to the play" , "She brings a special atmosphere to our meetings" , "This adds a light note to the program"

Give temporarily; let have for a limited time. Synonym: loan. "Loan me some money"

Have certain characteristics of qualities for something; be open or vulnerable to. "The current system lends itself to great abuse"

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"Lend" Quotes from Famous Books

... world that we live in, To lend, or to spend, or to give in; But to beg, or to borrow, or get a man's own, 'Tis the very worst world, sir, that ever ...

— Tales of a Traveller • Washington Irving

... which Home Rule has been treated is the more to be deplored as the subject is one which does not lend itself readily to the trivialities of party debates. It raises questions of principle, not of detail. It ascends at once into the highest region of politics. It is conversant with the great questions of constitutional ...

— Handbook of Home Rule (1887) • W. E. Gladstone et al.

... the coral and shot out into the unimpregnated sea. The sharks seemed to find the presence of the forlorn groveller in the mud unendurable when it stained the water red, though apparently indifferent to its presence as long, as it remained quiescent, which facts lend confirmation to the popular opinion that the fluid possesses a caustic-like principle violently irritative to ...

— My Tropic Isle • E J Banfield

... it for granted, sir, you have concluded to comply with what will, no doubt, be the general call of your country in relation to the new government. You will permit me to say that it is indispensable you should lend yourself to its first operations. It is to little purpose to have introduced a system, if the weightiest influence is not given to its ...

— The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 (of 5) • John Marshall

... accidents to which travellers from distant lands are liable. But at all events each family now has features of its own, typical characteristics by which it may be readily distinguished from its neighbors. My chief aim at present is to give an idea of those characteristics which lend individuality to the "mythical beings" in the Skazkas; in order to effect this, I shall attempt a delineation of those supernatural figures, to some extent peculiar to Slavonic fairy-land, which make their appearance in the Russian folk-tales. I have given a brief sketch ...

— Russian Fairy Tales - A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore • W. R. S. Ralston

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