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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

... Monsieur and Madame Hochon, of Agathe, and Joseph (the latter much amazed at the scrupulous care of the old people in the choice of words), were delivered of the following answer, concocted solely for the benefit ...

— The Celibates - Includes: Pierrette, The Vicar of Tours, and The Two Brothers • Honore de Balzac

... the loveliest time. And as for wars and rumours of wars, you surely know enough of me to be aware that I like that also a thousand times better than decrepit peace in Middlesex? I do not quite like politics; I am too aristocratic, I fear, for that. God knows I don't care who I chum with; perhaps like sailors best; but to go round and sue and sneak to keep a crowd together - never. My imagination, which is not the least damped by the idea of having my head cut off in the bush, recoils aghast from the idea of a life like Gladstone's, and the shadow of the newspaper ...

— Vailima Letters • Robert Louis Stevenson

... everywhere giving. The hospital and its arrangements were very perfect. The well-kept floor, the clean cots, and the very small number of about twenty inmates out of a strength of 2,000, may be taken as indicative of the care in all other sanitary arrangements. Both the sickness and mortality seems very small. I have been much gratified with what I have seen, and have learned some points of interest ...

— Prisoners Their Own Warders - A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits - Settlements Established 1825 • J. F. A. McNair

... greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. The accidents of my life have often afforded me this advantage, but never with more fulness and variety than during my continuance in office. There was one man, especially, the observation of whose character ...

— The Scarlet Letter • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... that Mustad and his companions would be on the alert to note the course taken by Everson, so as to learn what had become of his friends, the young man saw the need of misleading them. He took care not to return to the river over his own trail. Instead of doing so he moved to the right, as if on his way to the nearby town of Akwar. When satisfied he was beyond range of the keen vision of those ...

— The Jungle Fugitives • Edward S. Ellis

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