untended
adjective
un·tend·ed ˌən-ˈten-dəd 
: not managed, minded, or watched over : not tended
a stove that was left untended
an untended garden
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Get Rid Of Clutter Knick-knacks, stacks of magazines, and piles of untended laundry can be magnets for dust. —
Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 10 Apr. 2026 Buffers include everything from berms and lines of trees to prevent pesticide drift to 100-foot areas of untended land. —Thomas Heaton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026 Guerrero believes her sister wasn’t much better off at Villa Serena I than in her untended home. —Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2026 For more than two centuries, such burial grounds, especially those in the former American slave states, have often been erased or obscured – paved over by parking lots, built upon by highways or private development, or simply left unknown and untended. —Joanna Gilmore, The Conversation, 29 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for untended
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Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 10 Apr. 2026 Buffers include everything from berms and lines of trees to prevent pesticide drift to 100-foot areas of untended land. —Thomas Heaton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026 Guerrero believes her sister wasn’t much better off at Villa Serena I than in her untended home. —Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2026 For more than two centuries, such burial grounds, especially those in the former American slave states, have often been erased or obscured – paved over by parking lots, built upon by highways or private development, or simply left unknown and untended. —Joanna Gilmore, The Conversation, 29 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for untended
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“Untended.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/dictionary/untended. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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