Nurture
Tend
Tend verb - To show a liking or proneness (for something).
Mutual synonyms
Common collocations
| life | nurture life | tend life |
| characters | nurture characters | tend characters |
| creatures | nurture creatures | tend creatures |
| cats | nurture cats | tend cats |
Both words in one sentence
- They clean up the winter snow, change the seasons and the weather, tend the 'wild' animals, and nurture the plants.
Source: In Harmony with Nature -
The (logically extremely rare) pariahs of their society who secretly want to nurture the lesser races and rebel against the cold logical approach tend to show up with alarming regularity in the non-Miles books.
Source: Franchise / Faction Paradox
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