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Tender   /tˈɛndər/   Listen
Tender

adjective
(compar. tenderer; superl. tenderest)
1.
Given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality.  "A tender smile" , "Tender loving care" , "Tender memories" , "A tender mother"  Antonym: tough.
2.
Hurting.  Synonyms: raw, sensitive, sore.
3.
Young and immature.
4.
Having or displaying warmth or affection.  Synonyms: affectionate, fond, lovesome, warm.  "A fond embrace" , "Fond of his nephew" , "A tender glance" , "A warm embrace"
5.
Easy to cut or chew.  Antonym: tough.
6.
Physically untoughened.  Synonym: untoughened.  Antonym: tough.
7.
(used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail.  Synonyms: crank, cranky, tippy.
8.
(of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition.
noun
1.
Something that can be used as an official medium of payment.  Synonyms: legal tender, stamp.
2.
Someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another.  Synonyms: attendant, attender.
3.
A formal proposal to buy at a specified price.  Synonym: bid.
4.
Car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water.
5.
A boat for communication between ship and shore.  Synonyms: cutter, pinnace, ship's boat.
6.
Ship that usually provides supplies to other ships.  Synonym: supply ship.
verb
(past & past part. tendered; pres. part. tendering)
1.
Offer or present for acceptance.
2.
Propose a payment.  Synonyms: bid, offer.
3.
Make a tender of; in legal settlements.
4.
Make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer.  Synonyms: tenderise, tenderize.



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"Tender" Quotes from Famous Books



... left me without a comforter in the world?" So, without seeking for a Comforter, without striving to "find Him," as the dear voice had whispered, he turned away and strove to crush out the love and the tender memories which haunted his heart, and most of all that dying whisper which said, "Don't ...
— Culm Rock - The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught • Glance Gaylord

... nervously than ever. The light burned clear, the noise went on. This time, however, he did not ask Tom what he might or might not do, but dropped on his knees by his bedside to open his heart to Him who heareth the cry of the tender ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Volume V. • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.

... mud gathered on his midnight expedition to the hunting-lodge. His face looked much as before the shot was fired; in death, as in life, he was the handsomest fellow in all Ruritania. I wager that many tender hearts ached and many bright eyes were dimmed for him when the news of his guilt and death went forth. There are ladies still in Strelsau who wear his trinkets in an ashamed devotion that cannot forget. Well, even I, who had every good cause to hate and scorn him, set the hair smooth ...
— Rupert of Hentzau - From The Memoirs of Fritz Von Tarlenheim: The Sequel to - The Prisoner of Zenda • Anthony Hope

... lot was the character of his gaoler. This humane person had himself tasted the tender mercies of 'paternal' government; he knew the nature of a dungeon better even than his prisoner. 'For four years,' we are told, 'he had seen no human face; his scanty food had been lowered to him through a trap-door; neither chair nor table were ...
— The Life of Friedrich Schiller - Comprehending an Examination of His Works • Thomas Carlyle

... others; have set up your canting synagogues at our Church doors, and the Church and members have been loaded with reproaches, with oaths, associations, abjurations, and what not. Where has been the mercy, the forbearance, the charity, you have shown to tender consciences of the Church of England, that could not take oaths as fast as you made them; that having sworn allegiance to their lawful and rightful King, could not dispense with that oath, their King being still alive, ...
— Daniel Defoe • William Minto


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