'tend
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)
- Obsolete form of tend.
- 1911, Theodore Dreiser, Jennie Gerhardt, Chapter XIII:
- Now, ma, I'll 'tend to that.
- 1911, Theodore Dreiser, Jennie Gerhardt, Chapter XIII:
Anagrams
- Dent, dent