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Care   /kɛr/   Listen
noun
Care  n.  
1.
A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude. "Care keeps his watch 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." "Perplexed 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."
Synonyms: 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 degree. 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, anxious to avoid an evil.



verb
Care  v. i.  (past & past part. cared; pres. part. caring)  To be anxious or solicitous; 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."






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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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