1. To focus or apply one's attention to someone or something; to take care of someone or something.

What does the word tending mean?

1 : to exhibit an inclination or tendency : conduce tends to be optimistic. 2 : to move, direct, or develop one's course in a particular direction cannot tell where society is tending. tend. verb (2) tended; tending; tends.

What does tending towards mean?

1. to be disposed or inclined in action, operation, or effect to do something: The particles tend to unite. 2. to be disposed toward an idea, emotion, way of thinking, etc.