Crossword-Solution: TENDER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tender | n. | One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse. |
| Tender | n. | A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. |
| Tender | n. | A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. |
| Tender | v. t. | To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt. |
| Tender | v. t. | To offer in words; to present for acceptance. |
| Tender | n. | An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest. |
| Tender | n. | Any offer or proposal made for acceptance; as, a tender of a loan, of service, or of friendship; a tender of a bid for a contract. |
| Tender | n. | The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation. |
| Tender | superl. | Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit. |
| Tender | superl. | Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained. |
| Tender | superl. | Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate. |
| Tender | superl. | Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic. |
| Tender | superl. | Exciting kind concern; dear; precious. |
| Tender | superl. | Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of. |
| Tender | superl. | Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild. |
| Tender | superl. | Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain. |
| Tender | superl. | Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject. |
| Tender | superl. | Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel. |
| Tender | n. | Regard; care; kind concern. |
| Tender | v. t. | To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TENDER | anagram | RENTED, TENDRE, TERNED |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with TENDER (5)
Next day, however, she was awfully tender, and gave out bandages to every one, and they played till bed-time at limping about and carrying their arms in slings.
From his pipe the smoke ascending Filled the sky with haze and vapor, Filled the air with dreamy softness, Gave a twinkle to the water, Touched the rugged hills with smoothness, Brought the tender Indian Summer To the melancholy north-land, In the dreary Moon of Snow-shoes.
The Bear and the Fox A BEAR boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying that of all animals he was the most tender in his regard for man, for he had such respect for him that he would not even touch his dead body.
Never having enjoyed, to any considerable extent, her soothing presence, her tender and watchful care, I received the tidings of her death with much the same emotions I should have probably felt at the death of a stranger.
But he is my boy, and he is tender-hearted.” That night, when the boys were called to supper, they sat down moodily.
Quotes with TENDER (3)
I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.
We love men because they can never fake orgasms, even if they wanted to. Because they write poems, songs, and books in our honor. Because they never understand us, but they never give up. Because they can see beauty in women when women have long ceased to see any beauty in themselves. Because they come from little boys. Because they can churn out long, intricate, Machiavellian, or incredibly complex mathematics and physics equations, but they can be comparably clueless when i…
I know women are taught by other women that they must never admit the full truth to a man. But the highest form of affection is based on full sincerity on both sides. Not being men, these women don't know that in looking back on those he has had tender relations with, a man's heart returns closest to her who was the soul of truth in her conduct. The better class of man, even if caught by airy affectations of dodging and parrying, is not retained by them. A Nemesis attends the…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 100 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).