Front | tend |
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Back | /tend/ verb 1tend to do something if something tends to happen, it happens often and is likely to happen again:People tend to need less sleep as they get older.My car tends to overheat in the summer. 2(also tend to somebody/something) [transitive] old-fashioned to look after someone or something:Sofia was in the bedroom tending to her son. 3tend towards something to have one particular quality or feature more than others:Charles tends towards obesity. 4tend bar especially American English to work as abartender 5[intransitive always + adverb/preposition] formal to move or develop in a particular directiontend upwards/downwardsInterest rates are tending upwards. |
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