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a boat for communication between ship and shore given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality; "a tender heart"; "a tender smile"; "tender loving care"; "tender memories"; "a tender mother" caring, sentimental physically untoughened; "tender feet" delicate easy to cut or chew; "tender beef" chewable, crisp, short, tenderized, flaky susceptible to physical or emotional injury; "at a tender age" young (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition; "tender green shoots" delicate offer or present for acceptance make a tender of; in legal settlements make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer; "tenderize meat" something used as an official medium of payment car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water ship that usually provides supplies to other ships a formal proposal to buy at a specified price propose a payment; "The Swiss dealer offered $2 million for the painting" someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw" painful (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail unstable having or displaying warmth or affection; "affectionate children"; "caring parents"; "a fond embrace"; "fond of his nephew"; "a tender glance"; "a warm embrace" loving |
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