tend
/ˈtɛnd/ verb B1- To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
- To be likely, or probable to do something, or to have a certain habit or leaning. · They tend to go out on Saturdays.· It tends to snow here in winter.
- To contribute to or toward some outcome.
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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Alas, it is not the death of the body I regret; for is not the destruction of the vital principle, the repose to which everything is tending, to which every unhappy being aspires,—is not this the repose of matter after which I so long sighed, and which I was seeking to attain by the painful process of starvation when Faria appeared in my dungeon?
“Well, that tends to confirm my own ideas,” said Franz, “that the countess’s suspicions were destitute alike of sense and reason.
“May I ask to what these questions tend?”
Slumber refused to visit his eyelids and the night was passed in feverish contemplation of the chain of circumstances tending to prove the identity of the mysterious visitant to the Colosseum with the inhabitant of the grotto of Monte Cristo; and the more he thought, the firmer grew his opinion on the subject.
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