tender

Meaning

  1. (intransitive) to tend to, to have a tendency
  2. (transitive) to spread, to stretch out
  3. (transitive) to lay (cable)
  4. (transitive) to make (a bed)
  5. (transitive) to hang up (clothes)
  6. (transitive) to build (a bridge across an expanse)
  7. (transitive) to extend (the hand)
  8. (transitive) to floor (with a punch), to stretch out
  9. (transitive) to cast (a net)
  10. (transitive) to set (a trap)
  11. (transitive) to coat (with plaster)
  12. (reflexive) to lay oneself down

Frequency

23k
Hyphenated as
ten‧der
Pronounced as (IPA)
/tenˈdeɾ/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Latin tendere, tendō, from Proto-Italic *tendō, from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, draw”).

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