Definitions for tend

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tend tend

Spelling: [tend]

IPA: /tɛnd/

Tend is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in tend (dent).

Definitions for tend

Verb phrases

1. tend on/upon, Archaic. to attend or wait upon; minister to; serve:

verb (used with object)

1. to attend to by work or services, care, etc.:
2. to look after; watch over and care for; minister to or wait on with service:
3. Nautical. to handle or attend to (a rope).

verb (used without object)

1. to be disposed or inclined in action, operation, or effect to do something:
2. to be disposed toward an idea, emotion, way of thinking, etc.:
3. to lead or conduce, as to some result or resulting condition:
4. to be inclined to or have a tendency toward a particular quality, state, or degree:
5. (of a journey, course, road, etc.) to lead or be directed in a particular direction (usually followed by to, toward, etc.):
6. to attend by action, care, etc. (usually followed by to).

Origin of tend

1300-50; Middle English tenden Middle French tendre Latin tendere to stretch, extend, proceed

Examples for tend

"You 'tend to your own troubles," returned the other, with an imitation of liveliness.

My poor Gurard, who had helped me to tend my sister, was in bed ill with phlebitis.

Have you no ears, or no conscience, not to tend the sick better?

tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.

The same applies to other visual cues that tend to go unremarked.

Anti-abortion organizations tend to tend to propagate the idea that the procedure is dangerous and unproven.

We tend to think not, but the rise of King, Kennedy, and Lincoln was unlikely, too.

Shaw said she we can tend to everything all right so maybe I will come.

"You 'tend to your own business," cried the thoroughly enraged farmer.

When time passes and things remain relatively quiet in the United States, Americans tend to think the problem has been solved.