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Sensitive or painful to the touch.
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Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
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tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit
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Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
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(of food) Soft and easily chewed.
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Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
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Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.
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Suzanne was such a tender mother to her children.
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Young and inexperienced.
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Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
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tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain
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Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
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a tender subject
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Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
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Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
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Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.