to attend to
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3.6
- phrasal verb
- /əˈtɛnd tu/
:
ocuparse de
- I have many matters to attend to at Cachtice.
- attend to the needs
- attend to concerns
- attend to important matters
You want to attend to what's actually going on.
- You want to attend to what's actually going on.
- That stuff that isn't attended to is so easily forgotten.
- So this is an important thing to attend to as well.
- Food is one of those things which we have been attending to from birth.
- That's a matter that should be attended to.
- and one day he had something to attend to,
- This kid is the one who really does attend to the narcissistic parent.
- He says, first of all, there's a drive that you should attend to.
- And I believe that second way is the wiser way to, to, to attend to this problem.
- I hope someone somewhere is being kind to him, caring for him, attending to him.
- These are basics, but basics a lot of people are not attending to.
Examples
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There are urgent matters for you to attend to.
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I have business to attend to.
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But like, how does she attend to that situation?
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I have to stop everything in the world and attend to the queen.
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We'll attend to you later.
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Then you attend to the day and the cares of the day.
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You have open wounds from what happened to you, and nobody has ever attended to those.
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She had to leave me and go attend to him.
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Hannah, will you attend to your dinner?
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I have some important details to attend to before the meeting starts.
Synonyms
∞
1.3
To look after someone or deal with a problem
∞
1.7
To work for someone or act in an official role, often in the military
605
1.0
To help someone by making a task easier
347
1.0
Look after a sick or injured person and give them needed help
169
2.7
To take care of something that needs action
20
3.4
To serve people at a table by bringing food or drinks
4
1.2
Look after and help someone so they are safe and healthy
Antonyms
How Attentive
Surface Forms
Morphology
attend + to
The meaning 'to take care of or give attention to' is directly derivable from 'attend' (to deal with or manage) with the prepositional marker 'to' indicating direction toward an object. This verb + preposition pattern is a regular, compositional construction (cf. Spanish 'atender a') and would be predictable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Attend to may come from an old image of attention moving toward a task: imagine attend as going toward and to pointing at the person or job that needs help. So, to attend to someone or something means 'to take care of' or 'give attention to' it.