tended
- 1Simple past and past participle of tend.
The nurse tended the wounded travelers through the night.
Public opinion had tended toward caution well before the vote.
Note
One regular -ed form serves two very different meanings, and the construction tells them apart. In the caring sense it takes an object or turns passive (a well-tended garden; the wounded were tended). In the leaning sense it takes no object and points ahead (prices tended upward). Watch tended to: before a noun it means looked after, but before a verb it means was inclined.
She tended to the guests while the cook finished dinner.
He tended to arrive late whenever it rained.
tended is a form of tend
tend, verb: To be likely to do something, or to have a particular habit or leaning. Full entry
- Spelling
- tend → tended: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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