attend
/əˈtɛnd/ verb B1- To care for (someone requiring attention); specifically, of a doctor, nurse, etc.: to provide professional care to (someone).
- To wait on (someone or their instructions) as an attendant, servant, etc.; also (specifically of a gentleman-in-waiting or lady-in-waiting to a member of royalty), to accompany (someone) in order to assist or wait upon them; to escort. · Servants attend the king day and night.
- To be present at (an event or place) in order to take part in some action or proceedings; also, to regularly go to (an event or place). · Children must attend primary school.
- To take action with respect to (someone, or something such as a concern, problem, or task); to deal with, to handle.
- Of a (chiefly immaterial) thing: to be consequent to or present with (someone or something); to accompany. · a measure attended with ill effects
- Followed by to: to look after someone or something. · Valets attend to their employers’ wardrobes.
- To be ready to wait upon someone or their instructions as an attendant, servant, etc.; also (followed by on or upon), to accompany someone in order to assist or wait upon them.
- Followed by at: to go to and be present at a place for some purpose; also (obsolete), followed by on: to be present at and take part in an event.
Plural attend · He/she/it attends · Past attended · Past participle attended · -ing form attending
Verb forms
- Base form
- attend
- He/she/it
- attends
- Past
- attended
- Past participle
- attended
- -ing form
- attending
From the library
“I’ve tried the roots of trees, and I’ve tried banks, and I’ve tried hedges,” the Pigeon went on, without attending to her; “but those serpents!
“There might be some sense in your knocking,” the Footman went on without attending to her, “if we had the door between us.
“I don’t think they play at all fairly,” Alice began, in rather a complaining tone, “and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can’t hear oneself speak—and they don’t seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them—and you’ve no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there’s the arch I’ve got to go through next walking about at the other end of the ground—and I should have croqueted the Queen’s hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming!”
“Oh, I know!” exclaimed Alice, who had not attended to this last remark, “it’s a vegetable.
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