tend Definition

tend¹
verb tended, tending

1. To take care of or look after someone or something; to wait on or serve them.

Thesaurus: manage, handle, maintain, keep, guard, protect, minister to, nurse, serve, comfort, cultivate, control; Antonym: neglect.
2. To attend to it.

Form: tend to something

Derivative: tender
noun

(see also tender³).

Etymology: 14c: variant of attend.

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tend²
verb, intr tended, tending

1. To be likely or inclined to it.

Thesaurus: be predisposed, incline, lean, gravitate, head, aim.
Form: tend to something (usually)
Form: tend towards something
2. To move slightly, lean or slope in a specified direction.

Etymology: 14c: from Latin tendere to stretch.