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Meanings of tending in English

Portuguese
cuidado
Catalan
atenció
Spanish
ayuda

The work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something.

        cuidado

        (Usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward.

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              Usage of tending in English
              1
              Mrs Hodge said: Local authorities are tending to cope with funding reductions.
              BBC
              2
              Logan was working day and night then, building houses and tending bar.
              The forever war
              3
              Perhaps my true worth may be measured in the tending of you.
              The Kagonesti (A Story of the Wild Elves)
              4
              A few others were inside the room, feeding and tending the children.
              Earth Afire
              5
              There is here in the subject no antecedent feeling tending to morality.
              The Critique of Practical Reason
              6
              But nothing had been found tending to implicate him in the crime.
              Phineas Redux
              7
              He was certainly tending towards the more Christian elements in his surroundings.
              Gilbert Keith Chesterton
              8
              Don't forget to say hi to Kevin Fitzgerald, if he's tending bar.
              Anthropology of an american girl: a novel
              9
              We broke up the door and took turns again tending the fire.
              A Busy Year at the Old Squire's
              10
              The sacristan stood beside him, tending to the incense and holy water.
              The last four days of Paddy Buckley
              11
              The footsteps of the murderer were visible, out-doors, tending toward the window.
              The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster / With an Essa...
              12
              Need of raw material was the motive tending towards agreement with Russia.
              Russia in 1919
              13
              She had thrown herself with devotion into the tending of the poor.
              The Argosy, Vol. 51, No. 6, June, 1891
              14
              I spent a morning tending severe sun-burns with liberal applications of liniment.
              Anno Dracula
              15
              I may have other personal reasons also, tending to the same conclusion.
              The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance
              16
              There was a flurry of activity among the priests tending the instruments.
              Gather, Darkness!
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              Tending through the time
              Tending across language varieties
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