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1. Meaning 1 · noun

   Care, kind concern, regard.

2. Meaning 2 · noun

   The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.

3. Meaning 3 · adjective

   Sensitive or painful to the touch.

4. Meaning 4 · adjective

   Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.

   “tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit”

5. Meaning 5 · adjective

   Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.

6. Meaning 6 · adjective

   (of food) Soft and easily chewed.

7. Meaning 7 · adjective

   Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.

8. Meaning 8 · adjective

   Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.

   “Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children.”

9. Meaning 9 · adjective

   Young and inexperienced.

10. Meaning 10 · adjective

    Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.

    “tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain”

11. Meaning 11 · adjective

    Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.

    “a tender subject”

12. Meaning 12 · adjective

    Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.

13. Meaning 13 · adjective

    Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.

14. Meaning 14 · adjective

    Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.

How this word is used

• General “tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit”
• General “Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children.”
• General “tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain”
• General “a tender subject”

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