lend itself to

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lend itself to (third-person singular simple present lends itself to, present participle lending itself to, simple past and past participle lent itself to)

1. (transitive, idiomatic) to be suitable for
   • 1916, George Santayana, Egotism in German Philosophy:

     The belief in a romantic chaos lends itself to pessimism, but it also lends itself to absolute self-assertion.