Communication

Synonyms for intend

The synonym for intend recorded in this bank is mean, in the sense "mean or intend to express or convey". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · verb

The synonym for intend

meanverb, in the sense "mean or intend to express or convey"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and intend carries one sense so far.

The senseverbTier 1, FoothillsCommunication

mean or intend to express or convey

I intend no criticism of your work.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

mean

Same sentence, swapped: I mean no criticism of your work.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

flash
concert
schedule

Where intend turns up in the game

intend is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play intend

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so intend reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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