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1. ambitransitiveusuallyor "on"/"upon" + nounTo fix the mind upon (something, or something to be accomplished); be intent upon

   He intends to go to university.

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   They evidently intended some mischief.

   After I've finished my contract I never intend to teach teenagers again.

   The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.

   1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

   She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.

   1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court

   In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.

   2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6

   Synonyms: mean, purport, design, plan, think, propose, purpose, have a mind to

2. To fix the mind on; attend to; take care of; superintend; regard.
3. obsoleteTo stretch to extend; distend.
4. To strain; make tense.
5. obsoleteTo intensify; strengthen.

   Dotage, fatuity, or folly[…]is for the most part intended or remitted in particular men, and thereupon some are wiser than others[…].

   1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York: New York Review Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 139

6. To apply with energy.
7. To bend or turn; direct, as one’s course or journey.
8. To design mechanically or artistically; fashion; mold.
9. To pretend; counterfeit; simulate.