wend

Plural: wends

Verb

Verb Forms: wended, wending, wends

To go, proceed, or travel in a particular direction.
direct one's course or way
- "wend your way through the crowds"
To turn; change, to adapt.
To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.
To turn; make a turn; go round; veer.
To pass away; disappear; depart; vanish.

Noun

A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit

Examples

She had to WEND her way through a tricky rack of letters to find a playable word.
We wended our weary way westward.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English wenden, from Old English wendan (“to turn, change, translate”), from Proto-West Germanic *wandijan, from Proto-Germanic *wandijaną (“to turn”), causative of *windaną (“to wind”), from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ- (“to turn, wind, braid”).
Cognate with Dutch wenden (“to turn”), German wenden (“to turn, reverse”), Danish vende (“to turn”), Norwegian Bokmål vende (“to turn”), Norwegian Nynorsk venda (“to turn”), Swedish vända (“to turn, turn over, veer, direct”), Icelandic venda (“to wend, turn, change”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wandjan, “to cause to turn”). Related to wind (Etymology 2).

Synonyms

to betake oneself

Scrabble Score: 8

wend: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
wend: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
wend: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

wend: valid Words With Friends Word