Meaning of CARE
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- [n] activity involved in maintaining something in good working order; "he wrote the manual on car care"
- [n] the work of caring for or attending to someone or something; "no medical care was required"; "the old car needed constant attention"
- [n] attention and management implying responsibility for safety; "he is under the care of a physician"
- [n] judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger; "he exercised caution in opening the door"; "he handled the vase with care"
- [n] a cause for feeling concern; "his major care was the illness of his wife"
- [n] an anxious feeling; "care had aged him"; "they hushed it up out of fear of public reaction"
- [v] be concerned with; "I worry about my grades"
- [v] feel concern or interest; "I really care about my work"; "I don't care"
- [v] prefer or wish to do something; "Do you care to try this dish?"; "Would you like to come along to the movies?"
- [v] 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"
- [v] provide care for; "The nurse was caring for the wounded"
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| | Synonyms: | | aid, attention, caution, charge, concern, deal, fear, forethought, give care, guardianship, handle, like, maintenance, manage, precaution, tending, tutelage, upkeep, wish, worry |
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| | See Also: | | administer, administrate, aid, anxiety, assist, attend, babysitting, camera care, car care, care, care for, carry on, cherish, come to grips, command, compassionate, condole with, conduct, control, coordinate, dental care, desire, direct, dispose of, dry-nurse, due care, faith cure, faith healing, feel for, first aid, fix, fixing, fixture, fuss, get to grips, give care, great care, hair care, hairdressing, help, hold dear, incubation, inspection and repair, judiciousness, juggle, livery, look, manicure, mending, mind, mind, misconduct, mishandle, mismanage, mother, nourishment, nurse, nursing, nurturance, ordinary care, organise, organize, overhaul, overprotect, pedicure, personal care, pity, please, plight, predicament, process, protection, providence, pump priming, quandary, reasonable care, repair, reparation, scheduled maintenance, see, service, skin care, slight care, steam fitting, sympathize with, take care, tender loving care, TLC, touch, treasure, treatment, tree surgery, want, work, work | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Care\ (k[^a]r), n. [AS. caru, cearu; akin to OS. kara
sorrow, Goth. kara, OHG chara, lament, and perh. to Gr.
gh^rys voice. Not akin to cure. Cf. {Chary}.]
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. --Shak.
2. Charge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility
for safety and prosperity.
The care of all the churches. --2 Cor. xi.
28.
Him thy care must be to find. --Milton.
Perplexed with a thousand cares. --Shak.
3. Attention or heed; caution; regard; heedfulness;
watchfulness; as, take care; have a care.
I thank thee for thy care and honest pains. --Shak.
4. The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
Right sorrowfully mourning her bereaved cares.
--Spenser.
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 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.
\Care\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Cared}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Caring}.] [AS. cearian. See {Care}, n.]
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.
--Shak.
Master, carest thou not that we perish? --Mark. iv.
38.
{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.
--Tennyson.
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