tend
/ˈtɛnd/ verb C2- To look after (e.g. an ill person.) · We need to tend to the garden, which has become a mess.
- To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard. · Shepherds tend their flocks.
- To wait (upon), as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend.
- To manage (an anchored vessel) when the tide turns, to prevent it from entangling the cable when swinging.
He/she/it tends · Past tended · Past participle tended · -ing form tending
Verb forms
- Base form
- tend
- He/she/it
- tends
- Past
- tended
- Past participle
- tended
- -ing form
- tending
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On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.
Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even more terrible than the truth.
“May I ask to what these questions tend?”
They all tend to deepen the impression upon my mind that the Cunninghams, father and son, had written this letter.
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