Synonyms for tend
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1. tend

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

   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

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1. tend

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

   Antonyms:
   betray, desert, abandon

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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. • Attend
   • Mind

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1. tendverb

   Synonyms:
   watch, guard, keep, protect, attend, accompany, nurse, take care of, wait on

2. tendverb

   Synonyms:
   attend, wait, serve, be attendant

3. tendverb

   Synonyms:
   incline, lean, verge, trend, make, be directed

4. tendverb

   Synonyms:
   conduce, contribute, lead

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1. tendverb

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "tend":

   trend

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1. H.W. Mann:

   Look at nature. A single bee cannot really do much. But you put a group of bees together and they can form a hive. A colony of bees that work in harmony. Each one doing its part. Some bees collect pollen. Some bees tend to the hive. Some bees guard the hive. Some bees tend to the nursery. Together they make a lot of honey.

2. George W. Bush:

   History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

3. Lyndon B. Johnson:

   Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

4. Andy Haldane:

   Official statistics tend to be lagging and tend to be revised. And what the scraping of the web can do is give us a better today read on what’s going on, it can give us a more timely understanding of whether the fortunes of the economy are turning up or turning down.

5. Dan Schnur:

   Political networks tend to be self-perpetuating and while I don't believe there has been overt gender discrimination or sexism, the leaders of student government, like the L.A. City Council and the U.S. Senate, tend to support people with whom they've built stronger relationships.