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lend has 6 distinct synonyms spread across 2 of its 3 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. Its one recorded opposite is borrow.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for lend come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
have certain characteristics of qualities for something; be open or vulnerable to
“This story would lend itself well to serialization on television”