Synonyms for tending
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : tend |
| Phonetic Transcription : tɛnd |
Top 10 synonyms for tending Other synonyms for the word tending
Définition of tending
Origin :- "to incline, to move in a certain direction," mid-14c., from Old French tendre "stretch, hold forth, offer" (11c.), from Latin tendere "to aim, stretch, extend" (see tenet).
- adj inclined
- adj giving attention to
- Thus manifestly a negligible factor, it is also one tending to extinction.
- Extract from : « 'Tis Sixty Years Since » by Charles Francis Adams
- One of these fellows, as it chanced, was their own guide, who had come in from tending the mules.
- Extract from : « Fair Margaret » by H. Rider Haggard
- The proceedings began with some animated discussion, all tending one way.
- Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
- This she had abundantly shown, but now, in her tending of the sick gentleman.
- Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
- And outside he went, like a king, with all Sierra Vista about him and tending on him.
- Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
- And the tending of living animals may be either a tending of individuals, or a managing of herds.
- Extract from : « Statesman » by Plato
- The partners had gone home for dinner and Mary-'Gusta was tending shop.
- Extract from : « Mary-'Gusta » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- All the night she had been calm and quiet, repressing her feelings, and tending the man she loved.
- Extract from : « Keziah Coffin » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- All things have their climax, and France is tending swiftly to the climax of her serfdom.
- Extract from : « The Trampling of the Lilies » by Rafael Sabatini
- Far away, tending his hot irons, he was glad to hear the other had been successful.
- Extract from : « End of the Tether » by Joseph Conrad
Antonyms for tending
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