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tendo
transitive and intransitive verb III conjugation

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1 to stretch, to spread, to extend
2 to distend
3 to aim, to direct weapon, to glance, to steps, to course
4 to strive
5 to pitch tent, to encamp
6 to pull tight
7 (bow) to draw
8 to press on, to insist
9 to exert oneself

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Locutions, idioms and examples

ad aliquid tendo = to bring oneself towards something || ad castra tendo = to bring oneself to the camp || casses tendo alicui || adversus tendo || ad Carthaginienses tendo = to be inclined to the Carthaginian alliance || qua tendit Ionia || qua se ponti plaga tendit || ad cicatricem tendit vulnus = the wound is healing || ad altiora et non concessa tendo = to aim for higher and illicit goals || brachia ad caelum tendo || ad caelum manus tendo = to lift one's hands to heaven || ad reliqua alacri tendebamus animo || Catilinam magna vi tendere || ad legatos supplices manus tendunt = they held out their pleading hands to the ambassadors || ad circumstantes tendere bracchia silvas = to the trees all around || Aeneas tendit gramineum in campum || alicui dextram porrigo or tendo or do || aqua tendit rumpere plumbum || aesculus radice in Tartara tendit || audito Marcium in Ciliciam tendere || captae civitati leges imponere tendent || anni euntes tendunt extorquere poemata || aestivam sermone benigno noctem tendo || facilem me indulgentemque praebebo rebus ad quas tendis || arcus si numquam cesses tendere mollis erit || arcum intendo or adduco or flecto or tendo or sinuo || ad occupationem aliquam tendunt et quod interiacet omne tempus grave est || alicui insidias colloco or compono or do or facio or loco or pono or paro or comparo or tendo or struo