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in·tend·ed

(ĭn-tĕn′dĭd)

adj.

1. Deliberate; intentional: "He nodded again, so slight a motion that only one who knew him could read it as an intended gesture" (Sabina Murray).

2. Prospective; future: an intended trip abroad next month.

n. Informal

A person whom one intends to marry; a fiancé or fiancée: our daughter and her intended.

in·tend′ed·ly adv.

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intended

(ɪnˈtɛndɪd)

adj

planned or future

informal a person whom one is to marry; fiancé or fiancée

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in•tend•ed

(ɪnˈtɛn dɪd)

adj.

1. purposed; intentional: an intended snub.

2. prospective: his intended wife.

3. Informal. the person one plans to marry; one's fiancé or fiancée.

[1570–80]

in•tend′ed•ly, adv.

in•tend′ed•ness, n.

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Adj.	1.	intended - resulting from one's intentions; "your intended trip abroad"; "an intended insult" motivated - provided with a motive or given incentive for action; "a highly motivated child can learn almost anything"; "a group of politically motivated men" planned - designed or carried out according to a plan; "the planned outlays for new equipment" premeditated - characterized by deliberate purpose and some degree of planning; "a premeditated crime" unintended - not deliberate
	2.	intended - future; betrothed; "his intended bride" committed, attached - associated in an exclusive sexual relationship

intended

adjective

1. planned, proposed He hoped the sarcasm would have its intended effect.

noun

1. (Informal) betrothed, fiancé or fiancée, future wife or husband, husband- or wife-to-be Attention is turned to the Queen's youngest son and his intended.

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intended

adjective

1. Done or said on purpose:

deliberate, intentional, purposeful, voluntary, willful, witting.

2. Pledged to marry:

affianced, betrothed, engaged, plighted.

noun

Informal. A person to whom one is engaged to be married:

betrothed, fiancé, fiancée.

Translations

beabsichtigt

prétendu

fidanzata fidanzato promessa sposa promesso sposo

intended

[ɪnˈtendɪd]

A. ADJ [effect] → deseado

B. N (o.f., also hum) → prometido/a m/f

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intended

[ɪnˈtɛndɪd] adj

[+ target, victim] → désigné(e); [effect] → voulu(e)

(= deliberate) [insult] → intentionnel(le)

(= projected) [journey] → projeté(e)

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intended

adj

effect → beabsichtigt, geplant; victim → ausgeguckt; target → anvisiert; what is the intended meaning of that remark? → was ist mit dieser Bemerkung gemeint?

husband, wife → zukünftig, in spe pred

n my intended (inf) → mein Zukünftiger (inf), → meine Zukünftige (inf)

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intended

[ɪnˈtɛndɪd]

1. adj

a. (deliberate, insult) → intenzionale

b. (planned, effect) → voluto/a; (journey, route) → programmato/a

2. n (old) (often hum) → fidanzato/a
he was not the intended victim → non era lui la vittima designata

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The next evening, I intended with my children to Milton, but meeting two or three small parties of the ruffians, who I suppose had concealed themselves in the country, and my coachman hearing one of them say, "There he is!" my daughters were terrified and said they should never be safe, and I was forced to shelter them that night at the Castle.

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He asked me, or to be truthful, he begged me to send him Don Quixote, for he intended to found a college where the Spanish tongue would be taught, and it was his wish that the book to be read should be the History of Don Quixote.

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He proudly beats the air, conscious of his dignity, and meditates intended mischief.

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But don't wrangle with us so long as you apply, to our intended abolition of bourgeois property, the standard of your bourgeois notions of freedom, culture, law, etc.

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Jerry intended to attack as soon as he had crept sufficiently near.

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The words are expressly intended to mislead some person -- yourself in all probability -- and the cunning which has put them to that use is a cunning which (as constantly happens when uninstructed persons meddle with law) has overreached itself.

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But repeating his visits often, expressing his joy to find I me in good health, asking, "whether I were now settled for life?" adding, "that he intended a voyage to the East Indies in two months," at last he plainly invited me, though with some apologies, to be surgeon of the ship; "that I should have another surgeon under me, beside our two mates; that my salary should be double to the usual pay; and that having experienced my knowledge in sea-affairs to be at least equal to his, he would enter into any engagement to follow my advice, as much as if I had shared in the command."

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In order to cast an odium upon the power of calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, it has been remarked that there is nowhere any provision in the proposed Constitution for calling out the POSSE COMITATUS, to assist the magistrate in the execution of his duty, whence it has been inferred, that military force was intended to be his only auxiliary.

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Captain Nemo evidently intended accomplishing his submarine programme, and I imagined that he intended, after doubling Cape Horn, to return to the Australian seas of the Pacific.