Clean
Clean verb - To remove the dirt from.
Tend
Tend verb - To show a liking or proneness (for something).
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- He constantly calls her a slacker when all she does is clean, cook, and tend to the tenants of the foster home all day and night without any help whatsoever and gives her no time to spend on herself.
Source: The Scrappy / Western Animation -
Skill Gate Character: Players with P90s tend to clean house at lower matchmaking ranks, thanks to P90's high rate of fire combined with low recoil making firing on the move a viable option.
Source: Video Game / Counter-Strike - Anti-Hero: The types vary, but romance novel leads can tend towards bad boys (ready to be reformed) instead of a clean cut, straitlaced fellow.
Source: Romance Novel Tropes
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