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wentest

wentest is the second-person singular simple past indicative of go.

wentest is the second-person singular simple past indicative of wend.

Meaning of go

Verb

go (third-person singular simple present goes, present participle going, simple past went or (obsolete) yode or (nonstandard) goed, past participle gone or (nonstandard) went)

  1. (intransitive) To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things such as people or cars, or intangible things such as moods or information.)
    • Why don’t you go with us?
    Synonyms:
    move, fare, tread, draw, drift, wend, cross
  2. (intransitive) To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
    • Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
    Synonyms:
    move, fare, tread, draw, drift, wend, cross
  3. (intransitive) To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc.).
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    Synonyms:
    move, fare, tread, draw, drift, wend, cross
  4. To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
    • We've only gone twenty miles today.
    Synonyms:
    move, fare, tread, draw, drift, wend, cross
  5. (intransitive) To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
    • We went swimming.
    Synonyms:
    move, fare, tread, draw, drift, wend, cross
  6. (intransitive) To leave; to move away.
    • Please don't go!

See all 86 meanings of go

Meaning of wend

Verb

wend (third-person singular simple present wends, present participle wending, simple past and past participle wended or (archaic) went)

  1. (transitive) To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.
    • We wended our weary way westward.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To turn; change, to adapt.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn; make a turn; go round; veer.
    • with the prowe at both ends, so as they need not to wend or hold waterc. 1611, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse on the Invention of Ships &c.
  4. (intransitive, obsolete) To pass away; disappear; depart; vanish.

See all 7 meanings of wend

Origin of wentest

From went + -est.

Questions about wentest

What is wentest the second-person singular simple past indicative of?
Wentest is the second-person singular simple past indicative of go.

Words near wentest in the dictionary

  1. went wrong
  2. Wentbridge
  3. wente
  4. wenten
  5. Wentes
  6. wentest
  7. wenteth
  8. Wentland
  9. Wentlands
  10. wentletrap
  11. wentletraps

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wentest (page history and authors); go (page history and authors); wend (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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