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entender

/ɪnˈtɛndə(ɹ)/

entender verb: to make tender.

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Verb

entender (third-person singular simple present entenders, present participle entendering, simple past and past participle entendered)

  1. (obsolete) To make tender.
    • And fearing lest the torments he felt, might in some sort entender his wifes heart[…], he besought her to be pleased she might be caried into the next chamber, which was accordingly performed.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 35, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
    • Entendered by distress, she easily yielded to the pensive manners of her companions and to the serene uniformity of a monastic life.1790, Ann Ward Radcliffe, chapter 8, in A Sicilian Romance, HTML edition
  2. (transitive) To treat with tenderness.
    • th' entender'd heart1742–1745, [Edward Young], The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC

entender meaning in Urdu

entender in Urdu

گلانا, کمزور بنانا

Forms of entender

third-person singular presententenders
present participleentendering
past participleentendered
pastentendered

Origin of entender

From en- + tender. Doublet of intenerate.

Questions about entender

What does entender mean?
Entender means to make tender.
What is entender in Urdu?
Entender in Urdu is گلانا, کمزور بنانا. See Entender meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is entender?
Entender is a verb.
How do you pronounce entender?
Entender is pronounced /ɪnˈtɛndə(ɹ)/.
What is the past tense of entender?
The past tense of entender is entendered.

Words near entender in the dictionary

  1. entempested
  2. entempesting
  3. entempests
  4. entend
  5. entended
  6. entender
  7. entendered
  8. entendering
  9. entenders
  10. entending
  11. entendre

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: entender (page history and authors); entender (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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