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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

... I have heard the folly upon either side (and the mass of it daily increases)—that it would be a wholesome thing if one could take such a talker and make him walk from Dover to the Solway, exercising some care that he should rise before the sun, and that he should see in clear weather the views of which I speak. A man who has done that has seen England—not the name or the map or the rhetorical catchword, but the thing. And it does ...

— First and Last • H. Belloc

... not," she answered. "Whatever it was, I think it came because God was taking care of His child, and warning him from sliding into the deep pool. We will thank him, Phil. 'He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.'" And to that verse she soothed the tired child till he fell asleep, and she could ...

— A Reputed Changeling • Charlotte M. Yonge

... 25%, in 1995. Plentiful rains helped agriculture in 1996, and outside aid continued to support this desperately poor economy. The economy continues to suffer massively from failure to maintain the infrastructure, looting, neglect of important cash crops, and lack of health care facilities. Because of the accumulated damage to capital plant and the decline in public discipline, recovery of domestic ...

— The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... of all inanimate things. It depends. I have never heard of a steam roller or a poison gas bomb being beloved by anybody. I should not care to associate with a hand grenade. It is a matter of taste; I dare say I could learn to love a British tank, but I could never make a friend and confidante of a balloon. An aeroplane might prove a good pal—we shall have ...

— Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... our labours, it is not to be wondered at that we had also our leisure and amusements, usually at night,—a polar night robed in light,—then, indeed, boys fresh from school never tossed care more to the winds than did the majority of us. Games, which men in any other class of society would vote childish, were entered into with a zest which neither gray hairs nor stout bodies in any degree ...

— Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; • Sherard Osborn

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