- lend, impart, bestow, contribute, add, bring - bestow a quality on; "Her presence lends a certain cachet to the company"; "The music added a lot to the play"; "She brings a special atmosphere to our meetings"; "This adds a light note to the program"
--1 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
- lend, loan - give temporarily; let have for a limited time; "I will lend you my car"; "loan me some money"
--2 is one way to give
Antonyms: borrow
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun lender1
They lend cars to the tourists
They lend the tourists their cars
- lend - have certain characteristics of qualities for something; be open or vulnerable to; "This story would lend itself well to serialization on television"; "The current system lends itself to great abuse"
--3 is one way to be
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP