Another word for tending

tending Synonyms

tending

modif.

Inclined toward
apt to, leaning, disposed to, predisposed to, bent on, likely to, prone to, liable to, verging on, working toward; see also likely 5.
Giving attention to
caring for, managing, directing, supervising, administering, ministering to, serving, nursing, aiding, attending, playing wet-nurse to*, babying*.
Antonyms omitting*, neglecting, avoiding.

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Night afternoon minimum tending to disappear.
In cold weather it was no little amusement to bake several small loaves of this in succession, tending and turning them as carefully as an Egyptian his hatching eggs.
He spent every evening tending his farm, as he called it.
It has been suggested 2 that an iron rod under magnetization may be in the same condition as if under a mechanically applied longitudinal stress tending to shorten the iron.
Round the molecule until the field is withdrawn, when it will be stopped by the action of an electro-motive force tending to induce an exactly equal current in the opposite direction.

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