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To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary conditionintransitive
- We would like to go skiing, but it depends on the amount of snow.
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To trust; to have confidence; to rely.intransitive
- we should all be able to depend on the word or assurance of our friends
- we depend on the mailman to come at the usual time.
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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.literary
- The long rows of teeth on the bulwarks glistened in the moonlight; and like the white ivory tusks of some huge elephant, vast curving icicles depended from the bows.
- In the centre is an Imperial Crown, from which depend a Harp of gold and the Badge.
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To be pending; to be undetermined or undecided.archaic
- a cause depending in court
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To cause to be contingent or dependent on; to set as a necessity.transitive
- There he wilted, obviously depending the disposal of his person and his plight on Bradly, and expecting that to be done at once, too.
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