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How to pronounce “depend”
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Pronunciation guide for depend
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of depend with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
quite stressful to live an independent individual life.
- Definition summary
- (intransitive, followed by on or upon, formerly also by of like independent does) To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition
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How to pronounce depend
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

quite stressful to live an independent individual life.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “depend”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (intransitive, followed by on or upon, formerly also by of like independent does) To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition
- (intransitive, usually followed by on or upon) To trust; to have confidence; to rely.
- (now literary, heraldry) To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above, especially in heraldry, where a badge, decoration, or element is suspended from another part of an achievement of arms.
- (archaic) To be pending; to be undetermined or undecided.
- (transitive) To cause to be contingent or dependent on; to set as a necessity.
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