tendverb
uk/tend/us/tend/tend verb (BE LIKELY)
B2 [ I ] to be likely to behave in a particular way or have a particular characteristic:
[ + to infinitive ] We tend to get cold winters and warm, dry summers in this part of the country.
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- I think you tend to eat more in the winter.
- Children tend to get unsettled if you keep on changing their routine.
- Paintwork on the corner of a stairway tends to get nicked and scratched.
- The British traditionally tend not to display much emotion in public.
- Things tend to get lost when you move house.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Possible and probable
- always
- anything's possible idiom
- arguably
- as never before idiom
- avenue
- course
- lean
- lean towards sth
- liable
- likelihood
- likely
- realm
- sporting chance
- stand
- strange
- stranger things have happened idiom
- strong
- ten
- ten to one idiom
- vista
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tend verb (CARE)
[ T ] formal to care for something or someone:
He carefully tended his sunflower plants.
The nurse gently tended the patient's cuts and bruises.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Medical treatment: treating & caring for people
- attention
- bedside manner
- bring
- care
- care for sb
- clinic
- domiciliary
- eye
- first-line treatment
- keep your/an eye on sth/sb idiom
- mind
- minister
- minister to sb
- modality
- nurse
- patch sb/sth up
- referral
- section
- set sb up
- soothe
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Phrasal verb(s)
tend to sb/sth