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hends

hends is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hend.

Meaning of hend

Verb

hend (third-person singular simple present hends, present participle hending, simple past and past participle hended)

  1. (obsolete) To take hold of; to grasp, hold.
    • She flew at him like to an hellish feend,
      And on his shield tooke hold with all her might,
      As if that it she would in peeces rend,
      Or reave out of the hand that did it hend1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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Questions about hends

What is hends the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Hends is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hend.

Words near hends in the dictionary

  1. Hendrixson
  2. Hendrixsons
  3. Hendry
  4. Hendry County
  5. Hendry Kendry
  6. hends
  7. hendy
  8. Hendys
  9. Henegar
  10. Henegars
  11. Heneghan

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