Verb: lend (lent) lend
- Give temporarily; let have for a limited time
"I will lend you my car";
- loan
- Provide a particular quality or character
"Her presence lends a certain cachet to the company";
- impart, bestow, contribute, add, bring
- Have certain characteristics of qualities for something; be open or vulnerable to
"This story would lend itself well to serialization on television"; "The current system lends itself to great abuse"
Derived forms: lent, lends, lending
Type of: agree, alter, change, check, correspond, fit, gibe, give, jibe, marry, marry up, match, modify, square, tally
Antonym: borrow
Encyclopedia: Lend, Iran