tend
/ˈtɛnd/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.57 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To look after (e.g. an ill person.)
Example Sentences
- "They tend to go out on Saturdays."
- "It tends to snow here in winter."
- "I was tending to get up later and later after the breakup."
- "Difficult broken country extends almost to the coast between Swatow (Shant’ou) on the south and Hangchow on the north, and this succession of barriers has tended to cut off southeast coastal China from the main body of the country."
- "She had found in her everything that could tend to make a farther connection between the families undesirable."
- "The Lords in 1722 declared that annexing such Clauses tends to the destruction of this government. And yet there are such bills every session and you pass them."
Etymology
From Middle English tenden, from Middle French tendre, from Old French tendre (“to stretch, stretch out, hold forth, offer, tender”), from Latin tendere (“to stretch, stretch out, extend, spread out”).