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| tenderly | |
| 1. adv. In a tender manner; gently; sweetly. |  |
| tender | |
| 1. adj. Sensitive or painful to the touch. | |
| 2. adj. Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate. | |
| tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit | |
| 3. adj. Physically weak; not able to endure hardship. | |
| 4. adj. (of food) Soft and easily chewed. | |
| 5. adj. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained. | |
| 6. adj. Fond, loving, gentle, sweet. | |
| Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children. | |
| 7. adj. Young and inexperienced. | |
| 8. adj. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic. | |
| tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain | |
| 9. adj. Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate. | |
| a tender subject | |
| 10. adj. (nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel. | |
| 11. adj. (obsolete) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious. | |
| 12. adj. (obsolete) Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of. | |
| 13. n. (obsolete) Care, kind concern, regard. | |
| 14. n. The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry. | |
| 15. v. (now rare) To make tender or delicate; to weaken. | |
| 16. v. To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly. | |
| 17. n. (obsolete) Someone who tends or waits on someone. | |
| 18. n. (rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water. | |
| 19. n. (nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships. | |
| submarine tender | |
| destroyer tender | |
| 20. n. (nautical) A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore. | |
| 21. v. To work on a tender. | |
| 22. n. A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card. | |
| Your credit card has been declined so you need to provide some other tender such as cash. | |
| legal tender | |
| 23. n. (legal) A formal offer to buy or sell something. | |
| We will submit our tender to you within the week. | |
| 24. n. Any offer or proposal made for acceptance. | |
| 25. v. (formal) To offer, to give. | |
| to tender one’s resignation | |
| 26. v. to offer a payment, as at sales or auctions. | |
