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attend to
verb as in address
verb as in assume
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Weak matches
verb as in buckle down
Weak matches
- address
- apply oneself
- bend
- concentrate on
- dedicate oneself to
- devote oneself to
- exert oneself
- get serious
- give
- give oneself over to
- keep close to
- keep one's mind on
- knuckle down
- launch into
- occupy oneself with
- pitch in
- plunge into
- put one's hand to the plow
- put one's nose to the grindstone
- set to
- swing into action
- take the bull by the horns
- throw
- turn
verb as in deal/deal with
verb as in ease
Strongest matches
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verb as in punish
Strongest matches
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verb as in serve
verb as in support
Strong matches
verb as in untighten
Weak matches
- abate
- aid
- allay
- ameliorate
- anesthetize
- appease
- assist
- assuage
- calm
- cheer
- clear the way
- comfort
- cure
- disburden
- disengage
- doctor
- expedite
- facilitate
- forward
- free
- further
- improve
- lessen
- let up
- let up on
- lift
- lighten
- loose
- loosen
- make easier
- meliorate
- mitigate
- moderate
- mollify
- nurse
- open the door
- pacify
- palliate
- promote
- quiet
- relax
- release
- relent
- relieve
- run interference for
- simplify
- slack
- slacken
- smooth
- soften
- soothe
- speed
- speed up
- still
- tranquilize
Example Sentences
At times, the professionals attending to me on the mountainside were not sure if things were getting better or worse so they decided to have me winched aboard a Coastguard helicopter and taken to hospital.
"She called me and later told me that she was attending to customers. Two hours later, I was informed that the building had collapsed," he said.
Paramedics attended to them, and then they were taken into police custody.
"We can’t have a situation where emergency services, be it an ambulance, be it a fire service, can’t get into this area to attend to people who are at real risk."
Previously, the Sturgess inquiry heard that paramedics who attended to Mr Rowley formed a view he was suffering from nerve agent poisoning, but the police disagreed with them.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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