tended

ADJECTIVE

safe

Synonyms

STRONGEST

intact protected secure

STRONG

okay snug

WEAK

cherished free from danger guarded home free impervious impregnable in safety inviolable invulnerable maintained out of danger out of harm's way preserved safe and sound safeguarded sheltered shielded sitting pretty unassailable undamaged under lock and key under one's wing unharmed unhurt uninjured unmolested unscathed unthreatened vindicated watched

Antonyms

STRONGEST

insecure unprotected

WEAK

dangerous exposed harmful incautious poisonous risky unguarded unsafe unthoughtful vulnerable

Example Sentences

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Tended properly, they can live for hundreds of years.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 11, 2024

Tended for generations by faithful caretakers, environmentalists and governments are now making a push to protect these areas as well.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2024

“I was a forester back in Washington. Tended the trees … what was left. Marked the sections still fit to harvest.”

From Slate • Nov. 27, 2021

Tended by those who had survived the horror, these sites simmered with a powerful olio of grief, guilt, mistrust, anger and vulnerability.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2018

Dame Partlet broods in reverie beatific Over as nice a "sitting" Of golden eggs as ever fowl prolific Tended, untired, unflitting.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, January 25th, 1890 by Various

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