tendering

Verb (1)

tender (third-person singular simple present tenders, present participle tendering, simple past and past participle tendered)

1. (archaic) To make tender or delicate; to weaken.
   • To such as are wealthy, live plenteously, at ease, […] these viands are to be forborne, if they be inclined to, or suspect melancholy, as they tender their healths […]., vol.I, New York, 2001, p.233
2. (archaic) To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly or with consideration.
   • The angrie king hath banished me the court:
     And therefore as thou louest and tendrest me,
     Be thou my aduocate vnto these peeres.1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC...

Verb (2)

tender (third-person singular simple present tenders, present participle tendering, simple past and past participle tendered)

1. To work on a tender.
   • Meantime, I'll dig up what I can, but if they start fishing again, I start tendering.1998, Dana Stabenow, Killing Grounds, →ISBN, page 103

Verb (3)

tender (third-person singular simple present tenders, present participle tendering, simple past and past participle tendered)

1. (formal) To offer, to give.
   • to tender one’s resignation
2. To offer a payment, as at sales or auctions; to bid.

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