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verb

simple past tense and past participle of lend.

Related forms

un·lent, adjective

well-lent, adjective

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Seldom has a modern subject lent itself so happily to the sculptor's art.

He envied my tenure-track job and the validation it lent to my career.

The government then repaid savers with money that bought less than the amount originally lent.

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Seldom has a modern subject lent itself so happily to the sculptor's art.

He envied my tenure-track job and the validation it lent to my career.

The government then repaid savers with money that bought less than the amount originally lent.

The animals served as beasts of burden and food sources and even lent their features to several gods.

The odds seem somewhat low that the physics alone lent itself to the failure.

Other farmers have lent him a flatbed truck and a small crane.

The large wingspan of his rig lent stability to the images.

Kearns, the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper, has lent new vigor to the.

It's an indisputable fact that for-profits make the majority of their profits from government money lent to their students.

The banks lent to thousands of investment corporations set up by local governments, which cannot borrow in their own name.

Pop singers and other celebrities have lent their weight to the conservation campaign.

Of course his name is lent to a process which is involved quite widely in the brewing.

The weather conditions lent an air of mystery to the site.

McCartney's later solo career lent credibility to the theory.

Pierre's elegance and refinement lent an air of grace to every event.

Many of them seem to have simply lent their name to the effort.

Capital that would have been lent to businesses is lent to the government.

The relative calm and beauty of the morning lent the tragedy an immeasurable surrealness.

Although books were sometimes lent to other monasteries, the consequences for failing to return them were severe.

They have lent too much truth to the mocking words of.

Dissertations can be lent from library to library depending on.

Western banks had lent recklessly in foreign currency to firms and households stricken by the downturn.

They seemed to sprout overnight in a few rows he had lent that year to new neighbors from.

He thought he'd compromise his objectivity if he lent his authority to any single company.

He was humble and quite frankly, he looked exhausted-all of which lent his address an air of authenticity, even gravitas.

Since then the country's banks have lent heavily for big.

The crisis lent the hospital a new sense of purpose, but it was draining and disruptive.

Some worried about banks that had lent heavily to the region.

Heroes was the kind of show that lent itself to this, the ability to tell a story in many different platforms.

The money was lent by his national security bureau to the foreign ministry.

Others say that the banks should not have lent so recklessly in the first place.

Many creditors lent to the group on the strength of the name alone.

Thousands of works are now lent each year between museums on every continent.

French banks, however, appear particularly vulnerable because they have lent heavily to countries on the troubled periphery.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

(in the Christian religion) an annual season of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter, beginning on Ash Wednesday and lasting 40 weekdays to Easter, observed by Roman Catholic, Anglican, and certain other churches.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English lente(n), Old English lencten, lengten spring, Lent, literally, lengthening (of daylight hours); cognate with Dutch lente, German Lenz spring; see Lenten

Related forms

post-Lent, adjective

a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, variant of -ulent: pestilent.

verb (used with object)

to grant the use of (something) on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.

to give (money) on condition that it is returned and that interest is paid for its temporary use.

to give or contribute obligingly or helpfully: to lend one's aid to a cause.

to adapt (oneself or itself) to something: The building should lend itself to inexpensive remodeling.

to furnish or impart: Distance lends enchantment to the view.

verb (used without object)

to make a loan.

Idiom

lend a hand, to give help; aid: If everyone lends a hand, we can have dinner ready in half an hour.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English lenden, variant (orig. past tense) of lenen, Old English lǣnan (cognate with Dutch lenen, German lehnen, Old Norse lāna), derivative of lǣn loan; cognate with German Lehnen, Old Norse lān. See loan¹

Related forms

lend·er, noun

in·ter·lend, verb, -lent, -lend·ing.

o·ver·lend, verb, -lent, -lend·ing.

re·lend, verb (used with object), -lent, -lend·ing.

Can be confused: 1. borrow, lend, loan (see usage note at loan¹); 2. lend, loan.

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World English Dictionary

lent (lɛnt)

—vb
	the past tense and past participle of lend

Lent (lɛnt)

—n
1.	Christianity the period of forty weekdays lasting from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday, observed as a time of penance and fasting commemorating Jesus' fasting in the wilderness
2.	(modifier) falling within or associated with the season before Easter: Lent observance
3.	(plural) (at Cambridge University) Lent term boat races

[Old English lencten, lengten spring, literally: lengthening (of hours of daylight)]

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Word Origin & History

lend

O.E. lænan "to lend," from læn "loan" (see loan). Cognate with Du. lenen, O.H.G. lehanon, Ger. lehnen, also verbs derived from nouns. Past tense form, with terminal -d, became principal form in M.E. on analogy of bend, send, etc.

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Lent

short for Lenten, from O.E. lencten "spring," the season, from W.Gmc. *langa-tinaz (cf. O.S. lentin, M.Du. lenten, O.H.G. lengizin manoth), from *lanngaz (root of O.E. lang "long") + *tina-, a root meaning "day" (cf. Goth. sin-teins "daily"), cognate with O.C.S. dini, Lith. diena, L. dies "day." the

compound probably refers to the increasing daylight. Church sense of "period between Ash Wednesday and Easter" is peculiar to Eng.

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Cultural Dictionary

Lent definition

In Christianity, a time of fasting and repentance in the spring, beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending several weeks later on Easter.

Note: To “give something up for Lent” is to abandon a pleasurable habit as an act of devotion and self-discipline.

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