Antonyms for tend
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1. tend

   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

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

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1. tend

   Antonyms:
   betray, desert, abandon

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

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1. • Attend
   • Mind

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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. tendverb

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

How to use tend in a sentence?

1. Kim Myung-jun:

   Once you listen in, you tend to keep listening under the blanket. It gets you addicted, aM radio stations like Far East Broadcasting Company have pretty good signals and can be listened to clearly in much of North Korea.

2. Rick Santorum:

   Spouses matter, when your spouse is not in sync with you — particularly on cultural issues, moral issues — [ you ] tend not to be as active on those issues.

3. William Snyder:

   Service providers tend to be more of a people business with less capital deployed, so it's easier for them to financially flex, eventually, though, they've got to run out of gas, too.

4. Andrew Smith:

   But there were only about 10,000 [voters], and based on the preliminary evidence, it was mostly older voters who tend to go conservative down here anyway, as opposed to the younger voters who might have swung the election in a different way had they shown up.

5. Randy Frederick:

   When we have a huge down week like we've had and certainly on Friday, which was a big down day, you tend to see a few technical bounces.

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