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Wandered vs Pandered - What's the difference?

wandered | pandered |

As verbs the difference between wandered and pandered

is that wandered is past tense of wander while pandered is past tense of pander.

wandered

English

Verb

(head)
  • (wander)

    • wander

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (lb) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.
  • :
  • *(Bible), (w) xi.37:
  • *:They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.
  • *
  • *:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
  • *
  • *:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
  • (lb) To stray; stray from one's course; err.
  • :
  • *(Bible), (Psalms) cxix.10:
  • *:O, let me not wander from thy commandments.
  • (lb) To commit adultery.
  • (lb) To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
  • (lb) Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.

    • Conjugation

    (en-conj-simple)

    Synonyms

    * (move without purpose) err, roam * (commit adultery) cheat * (go somewhere indirectly) * (lose focus) drift

    Derived terms

    * wander off * wanderer * wanderlust

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or instance of wandering.
    • To go for a wander

    Anagrams

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    pandered

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pander)

    • pander

    English

    Alternative forms

    * pandar

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer, especially when male. (Later panderer.)
  • * 1992 , Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way , Folio Society 2005, p. 190:
    • It was not only the brilliant phalanx of virtuous dowagers, generals and academicians with whom he was most intimately associated that Swann so cynically compelled to serve him as panders .
  • An offer of illicit sex with a third party.
  • An illicit or illegal offer, usually to tempt.
  • (by extension) One who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another.
  • * Burke
    • Those wicked panders to avarice and ambition.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To offer illicit sex with a third party; to pimp.
  • To tempt with, to appeal or cater to (improper motivations etc.); to assist in the gratification of.
    • His latest speech simply seems to pander to the worst instincts of the electorate.

    Related terms

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