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Definition of pander verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

pander

verb
 
/ˈpændə(r)/
 
/ˈpændər/
Word Originlate Middle English (as a noun): from Pandare, the name of a character in the English writer Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde who acts as the lovers' go-between. The verb dates from the early 17th cent.
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they pander
 
/ˈpændə(r)/
 
/ˈpændər/
he / she / it panders
 
/ˈpændəz/
 
/ˈpændərz/
past simple pandered
 
/ˈpændəd/
 
/ˈpændərd/
past participle pandered
 
/ˈpændəd/
 
/ˈpændərd/
-ing form pandering
 
/ˈpændərɪŋ/
 
/ˈpændərɪŋ/
Phrasal Verbs
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