Antonyms for tend
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1. tend

   Antonyms:
   abuse, aggrieve, damage, defame, defile, disparage, harm, ill-treat, ill-use, impose on, impose upon, injure, malign, maltreat, misemploy, misuse, molest, oppress, persecute, pervert, prostitute, rail at, ravish, reproach, revile, ruin, slander, victimize, vilify, violate, vituperate, wrong

   Synonyms:
   applaud, benefit, care for, cherish, conserve, consider, eulogize, extol, favor, laud, panegyrize, praise, protect, regard, respect, shield, sustain, uphold, vindicate

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1. tend

   Antonyms:
   betray, desert, abandon

   Synonyms:
   nurture, guard, watch, manage, serve, keep, aid, incline, verge, lean, aim, contribute, conduce, attend

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1. • Attend
   • Mind

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1. tend, be given, lean, incline, runverb

   have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined

   "She tends to be nervous before her lectures"; "These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence"

   Synonyms:
   course, operate, list, hunt, fly the coop, work, scat, move, turn tail, range, run, tilt, function, lead, lam, flow, melt down, track down, break away, head for the hills, extend, hunt down, endure, bunk, take to the woods, consort, execute, feed, prevail, bleed, carry, scarper, go, unravel, lean, play, die hard, race, pass, pitch, escape, dispose, black market, persist, incline, ladder, draw, hightail it, be given, slope, campaign, angle, run away, ply, guide, melt, tip, slant, run for

2. tendverb

   have care of or look after

   "She tends to the children"

   Synonyms:
   run, incline, be given, lean

3. tendverb

   manage or run

   "tend a store"

   Synonyms:
   run, incline, be given, lean

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1. tendverb

   Synonyms:
   conduce, contribute, attend, accompany, guard, incline, lean

How to use tend in a sentence?

1. Jon Flanders:

   The color is just phenomenal, its wings are black with these orange fingers. There aren’t a lot orange bats in the world. I don’t tend to work with that many brightly colored bats. It’s definitely an unusual one for me.

2. Arthur Miller:

   In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

3. Alessio Patalano:

   A larger fleet tend to be more competitive, in training personnel development, and operational capacity.

4. Lee Busby:

   I think you tend to work easier with people you know and trust.

5. Fox News:

   Well, I dont want to really get into it too much. But personally, I tend to doubt it, im not a believer, but you know, I guess anything is possible.

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