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
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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. Barry Popkin:

   It seems to me actually a worse product than it would have been 15 to 20 years ago, these are products that you eat only as your meal, and you tend not to eat salad as well.

2. Ben Schlappig:

   The airplane feels like home now, i feel as at home in Emirates first class, as I do anywhere else. I know every aspect of the seats ; there's a certain familiarity with the staff ; I tend to run into the same crews.

3. Epictetus:

   If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

4. Thomas Elliot:

   It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

5. Washington State University:

   There's a lot of these sort of nuances that I think we tend to ignore. And a lot of these things have to do with White supremacy and structural racism that's built into the system.