attends

Verb

attend (third-person singular simple present attends, present participle attending, simple past and past participle attended)

1. (transitive) To care for (someone requiring attention); specifically, of a doctor, nurse, etc.: to provide professional care to (someone).
   • The fift [beadsman] had charge ſick perſons to attend, / And comfort thoſe, in point of death vvhich lay; […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 41, page 146
2. (transitive) To wait on (someone or their instructions) as an attendant, servant, etc.; also (specifically of a gentleman-in-waiting or lady-in-waiting to a member of royalty), to accompany (someone) in order to assist or wait upon them; to escort.
   • Servants attend the king day and night.

   Synonyms:

   bestand, serve, aid, attend to, await, bestead, dance attendance, do, do for, service

3. (transitive) To be present at (an event or place) in order to take part in some action or proceedings; also, to regularly go to (an event or place).
   • Children must attend primary school.
4. (transitive) To take action with respect to (someone, or something such as a concern, problem, or task); to deal with, to handle.
5. (transitive) Of a (chiefly immaterial) thing: to be consequent to or present with (someone or something); to accompany.
   • a measure attended with ill effects
6. (archaic, obsolete, transitive) To look after (someone or something); to tend.
   • They [plate and jewels] are in a Trunke / Attended by my men: I vvill make bold / To ſend them to you, onely for this night: […]1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...

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