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Care   /kɛr/   Listen
Care

noun
1.
The work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something.  Synonyms: aid, attention, tending.  "The old car needs constant attention"
2.
Judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger.  Synonyms: caution, forethought, precaution.  "He handled the vase with care"
3.
An anxious feeling.  Synonyms: concern, fear.  "They hushed it up out of fear of public reaction"
4.
A cause for feeling concern.
5.
Attention and management implying responsibility for safety.  Synonyms: charge, guardianship, tutelage.
6.
Activity involved in maintaining something in good working order.  Synonyms: maintenance, upkeep.
verb
(past & past part. cared; pres. part. caring)
1.
Feel concern or interest.  "I don't care"
2.
Provide care for.  Synonym: give care.
3.
Prefer or wish to do something.  Synonyms: like, wish.  "Would you like to come along to the movies?"
4.
Be in charge of, act on, or dispose of.  Synonyms: deal, handle, manage.  "This blender can't handle nuts" , "She managed her parents' affairs after they got too old"
5.
Be concerned with.  Synonym: worry.



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"Care" Quotes from Famous Books



... some ill-disposed quartz, tormenting a peaceable octahedron of fluor, in mere caprice. I looked at it the other night so long, and so wonderingly, just before putting my candle out, that I fell into another strange dream. But you don't care about dreams. ...
— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin

... new, unspotted book of life before thee, Thine is the hand to trace upon its pages The first few characters, to live in glory, Or live in shame, through long, unending ages! Write, mother, write! Thy hand, though woman's, must not faint nor falter: The lot is on thee,—nerve thee then with care,— A mother's tracery time may never alter; Be its first impress, then, the breath ...
— Sanders' Union Fourth Reader • Charles W. Sanders

... and young people, especially on shipboard, in the tenements, and in the moving-picture houses; better housing, better amusements, and better wages for all the people. Finally, the wrecks must be taken care of. Rescue homes and other agencies manage to save a few to reformed lives; homes are needed constantly for temporary residence. Private philanthropy has provided them thus far, but the United States Government has ...
— Society - Its Origin and Development • Henry Kalloch Rowe

... you presided, of which I am formally apprised in a letter of yourself and others acting as a Committee of the Convention for that purpose. The declaration of principles and sentiments which accompanies your letter meets my approval, and it shall be my care not to violate it, or disregard it in any part. Imploring the assistance of Divine Providence, and with due regard to the views and feelings of all who were represented in the convention, to the rights of all the States and Territories and people of the nation, to the inviolability of the ...
— The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln • Francis Fisher Browne

... Jews had convinced Titus that, if Jerusalem was to be taken, it must be by means of regular siege operations, conducted with the greatest care and caution and, having made a circuit of the city, he perceived that it was impregnable, save on the north and northwestern sides—that is, the part defended by the third wall. He therefore, reluctantly, gave orders ...
— For the Temple - A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem • G. A. Henty


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