Bended vs Wended - What's the difference?
bended | wended |
(archaic) bent
(archaic) (bend)
(wend)
(obsolete) To turn; change.
To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.
* Surrey
(obsolete) To turn; make a turn; go round; veer.
(obsolete) To pass away; disappear; depart; vanish.
(obsolete, UK, legal) A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.
As verbs the difference between bended and wended
is that bended is (archaic) (bend) while wended is (wend).As an adjective bended
is (archaic) bent.bended
English
Adjective
(-)- He offered his fealty on bended knee.
Verb
(head)Usage notes
* Generally obsolete except in the phrase "on bended knee"wended
English
Verb
(head)wend
English
Verb
- We wended our weary way westward.
- Great voyages to wend .
- (Sir Walter Raleigh)
Usage notes
The modern past tense of (m) is (m). Originally it was (m), similarly to pairs such as (m)/(m), (m)/(m), (m)/(m), (m)/(m), or (m)/(m). However, (m) was long ago co-opted as the past tense of (m) (replacing (etyl) (m)) and using it as the past tense of (m) is now considered archaic.Synonyms
* to betake oneselfNoun
(en noun)- (Burrill)