Antonyms for tended

Grammar : Verb

Spell : tend

Phonetic Transcription : tɛnd

Definition of tended

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).

verb be apt, likely
verb care for

Example sentences :

Emilia looked as innocent as when Hope had tended her in the cradle.
Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

In the cave he made her a second couch, and tended her assiduously.
Extract from : « Green Mansions » by W. H. Hudson

Then she added: "The cave where you tended her—where is it?"
Extract from : « Green Mansions » by W. H. Hudson

He was daily tended by Norah, and received all his meals from her.
Extract from : « Johnny Bear » by E. T. Seton

I had tended her day and night, and this, in addition to the grief I was suffering, made me anaemic.
Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

The mother was in bed with the infant, tended by her nurse Mary Neff.
Extract from : « Harper's Young People, August 17, 1880 » by Various

But in music there was nothing which tended to that good which you are now seeking.
Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato

Nevertheless the form of the work has tended to obscure some of Plato's higher aims.
Extract from : « Phaedrus » by Plato

"Better for them if they 'tended to their own affairs," was the sharp answer.
Extract from : « Keziah Coffin » by Joseph C. Lincoln

This is the point to which the pathways of your lives have tended.
Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine

Synonyms for tended

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