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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
advised, affianced, aimed, aimed at, assured, betrothed, bound, bride-to-be, calculated, committed, compromised, conscious, considered, contemplated, contracted, deliberate, deliberated, designed, engaged, envisaged, envisioned, fiance, fiancee, future, guaranteed, implied, intentional, knowing, meant, meditated, obligated, of design, planned, pledged, plighted, projected, promised, proposed, purposed, purposeful, purposive, studied, sworn, teleological, underwritten, voluntary, warranted, willful, witting
Dictionary Results for intended:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
intended
    adj 1: resulting from one's intentions; "your intended trip
           abroad"; "an intended insult" [ant: unintended]
    2: future; betrothed; "his intended bride"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Intend \In*tend"\ ([i^]n*t[e^]nd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   Intended; p. pr. & vb. n. Intending.] [OE. entenden to be
   attentive, F. entendre, fr. L. intendre, intentum, and
   intensum, to intend, attend, stretch out, extend; pref. in-
   in + tendere to stretch, stretch out. See Tend.]
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   1. To stretch; to extend; to distend. [Obs.]
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            By this the lungs are intended or remitted. --Sir M.
                                                  Hale.
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   2. To strain; to make tense. [Obs.]
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            When a bow is successively intended and remedied.
                                                  --Cudworth.
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   3. To intensify; to strengthen. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
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            Magnetism may be intended and remitted. --Sir I.
                                                  Newton.
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   4. To apply with energy.
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            Let him intend his mind, without respite, without
            rest, in one direction.               --Emerson.
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   5. To bend or turn; to direct, as one's course or journey.
      [Archaic] --Shak.
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   6. To fix the mind on; to attend to; to take care of; to
      superintend; to regard. [Obs.]
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            Having no children, she did, with singular care and
            tenderness, intend the education of Philip. --Bacon.
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            My soul, not being able to intend two things at
            once, abated of its fervency in praying. --Fuller.
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   7. To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished); to be
      intent upon; to mean; to design; to plan; to purpose; --
      often followed by an infinitely with to, or a dependent
      clause with that; as, he intends to go; he intends that
      she shall remain.
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            They intended evil against thee.      --Ps. xxi. 11.
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            To-morrow he intends
            To hunt the boar with certain of his friends.
                                                  --Shak.
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   8. To design mechanically or artistically; to fashion; to
      mold. [Obs.]
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            Modesty was made
            When she was first intended.          --Beau. & Fl.
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   9. To pretend; to counterfeit; to simulate. [Obs.]
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            Intend a kind of zeal both to the prince and
            Claudio.                              --Shak.

   Syn: To purpose; mean; design; plan; conceive; contemplate.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Intended \In*tend"ed\, a.
   1. Made tense; stretched out; extended; forcible; violent.
      [Obs.] --Spenser.
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   2. Purposed; designed; as, intended harm or help.
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            They drew a curse from an intended good. --Cowper.
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   3. Betrothed; affianced; as, an intended husband.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Intended \In*tend"ed\, n.
   One with whom marriage is designed; one who is betrothed; an
   affianced lover.
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         If it were not that I might appear to disparage his
         intended, . . . I would add that to me she seems to be
         throwing herself away.                   --Dickens.
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