care

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To care is to feel concern, and care is attention given, tending, or upkeep. If you care about how your garden grows, you will take care to water it often, remove weeds, and talk to your plants about the weather.

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A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.

Noun
activity involved in maintaining something in good working order; "he wrote the manual on car care"

Noun
the work of caring for or attending to someone or something; "no medical care was required"; "the old car needed constant attention"

Noun
attention and management implying responsibility for safety; "he is in the care of a bodyguard"

Noun
judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger; "he exercised caution in opening the door"; "he handled the vase with care"

Noun
a cause for feeling concern; "his major care was the illness of his wife"

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Noun
an anxious feeling; "care had aged him"; "they hushed it up out of fear of public reaction"

Verb
be concerned with; "I worry about my grades"

Verb
feel concern or interest; "I really care about my work"; "I don''t care"

Verb
prefer or wish to do something; "Do you care to try this dish?"; "Would you like to come along to the movies?"

Verb
be in charge of, act on, or dispose of; "I can deal with this crew of workers"; "This blender can''t handle nuts"; "She managed her parents'' affairs after they got too old"

Verb
provide care for; "The nurse was caring for the wounded"


n.
A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.

n.
Charge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility for safety and prosperity.

n.
Attention or heed; caution; regard; heedfulness; watchfulness; as, take care; have a care.

n.
The object of watchful attention or anxiety.

n.
To be anxious or solicitous; to be concerned; to have regard or interest; -- sometimes followed by an objective of measure.


Care

Care , n. [AS. caru, cearu; akin to OS. kara sorrow Goth. kara lament, and to Gr. voice. Not akin to cure. Cf. Chary.] 1. A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.
Care keeps his wath in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.
2. Charge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility for safety and prosperity.
The care of all the churches.
Him thy care must be to find.
Perlexed with a thousand cares.
3. Attention or heed; caution; regard; heedfulness; watchfulness; as, take care; have a care.
I thank thee for thy care and honest pains.
4. The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
Right sorrowfully mourning her bereaved cares.
Syn. -- Anxiety; solicitude; concern; caution; regard; management; direction; oversight. -- Care, Anxiety, Solicitude, Concern. These words express mental pain in different degress. Care belongs primarily to the intellect, and becomes painful from overburdened thought. Anxiety denotes a state of distressing uneasiness fron the dread of evil. Solicitude expresses the same feeling in a diminished dagree. Concern is opposed to indifference, and implies exercise of anxious thought more or less intense. We are careful about the means, solicitous and anxious about the end; we are solicitous to obtain a good, axious to avoid an evil.

Care

Care, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cared ; p. pr. & vb. n. Caring.] [AS. cearian. See Care, n.] To be anxious or solictous; to be concerned; to have regard or interest; -- sometimes followed by an objective of measure.
I would not care a pin, if the other three were in.
Master, carest thou not that we perish?
To care for. (a) To have under watchful attention; to take care of. (b) To have regard or affection for; to like or love.
He cared not for the affection of the house.

A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.

To be anxious or solictous; to be concerned; to have regard or interest; -- sometimes followed by an objective of measure.

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Usage Examples

A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, make sure she's in the car safely first. Take good care of your woman, and the sky's the limit!

A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats.

Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

A lot of people are like, 'So you want to be famous.' And I'm like, 'No, I want to be good at my craft. I don't care about fame, I don't care if I even ever make it. As long as people know what I am as an actress in this business, I'm set for my career right now.'

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That's the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.

A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside.

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible.

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