Tend means to take care of or be in charge of someone or something.
(verb)An example of tend is watering a friend's garden while they are on vacation.
Tend is defined as to proceed in a direction or be inclined to do something.
(verb)See tend in Webster's New World College Dictionary
transitive verb
Origin: ME tenden, aphetic < attenden: see attend
intransitive verb
intransitive verb
Origin: ME tenden < OFr tendre < L tendere, to stretch, extend, tend: see thin
See tend in American Heritage Dictionary 4
intransitive verb tend·ed, tend·ing, tends
Origin:
Origin: Middle English tenden
Origin: , from Old French tendre
Origin: , from Latin tendere; see ten- in Indo-European roots
.verb tend·ed, tend·ing, tends verb, transitive
Origin:
Origin: Middle English tenden
Origin: , short for attenden, to wait on; see attend
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