lent

lent · verb

imported

Definitions

verb

  1. 1.

    Past tense and past participle of "lend"; gave something temporarily to someone on the condition it would be returned.

  2. 2.

    Past tense of "lend" in the sense of contributing or adding a quality.

Related words

Antonyms: borrowed
See also: borrow, lend, lending, loan
Synonyms: advanced, loaned

Etymology

From Old English laenan, past tense form. The irregular past tense developed through phonetic changes in Middle English, where the vowel shortened before the consonant cluster.