Entry Word: lend

Function: verb

Meaning: to give to another for temporary use with the understanding that it or a like thing will be returned <I can lend you my copy of the textbook until the weekend> <can you lend me five dollars?>

Synonyms advance, loan

Related Words furnish, give, grant; lease, let [chiefly British], rent

Near Antonyms receive, take

Antonyms borrow