How to pronounce “tender”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Sensitive or painful to the touch.
• Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
• Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
• (of food) Soft and easily chewed.
• Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
• Fond, loving, gentle, or sweet.
• Young and inexperienced.
• Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
• Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
• (nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
• (obsolete) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
• (obsolete) Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.
• [Noun]
• (obsolete) Care, kind concern, regard.
• The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.
• [Adverb]
• tenderly
• [Verb]
• (now rare) To make tender or delicate; to weaken.
• (archaic) To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly or with consideration.

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