'tend

See also: tend, тенд, and тэнд

English

Etymology

Shortening of attend or hypercorrection of tend to reflect its etymology

Verb

'tend (third-person singular simple present 'tends, present participle 'tending, simple past and past participle 'tended)

1. Obsolete form of tend.
   • 1911, Theodore Dreiser, chapter XIII, in Jennie Gerhardt‎^[1]:

     Now, ma, I'll 'tend to that.

Anagrams

• Dent, dent