'CARE' definitions:

Definition of 'care'

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noun
The work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something; "no medical care was required"; "the old car needs constant attention" [syn: care, attention, aid, tending]
noun
Judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger; "he exercised caution in opening the door"; "he handled the vase with care" [syn: caution, precaution, care, forethought]
noun
An anxious feeling; "care had aged him"; "they hushed it up out of fear of public reaction" [syn: concern, care, fear]
noun
A cause for feeling concern; "his major care was the illness of his wife"
noun
Attention and management implying responsibility for safety; "he is in the care of a bodyguard" [syn: care, charge, tutelage, guardianship]
noun
Activity involved in maintaining something in good working order; "he wrote the manual on car care" [syn: care, maintenance, upkeep]
verb
Feel concern or interest; "I really care about my work"; "I don't care"
verb
Provide care for; "The nurse was caring for the wounded" [syn: care, give care]
verb
Prefer or wish to do something; "Do you care to try this dish?"; "Would you like to come along to the movies?" [syn: wish, care, like]
verb
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" [syn: manage, deal, care, handle]
verb
Be concerned with; "I worry about my grades" [syn: worry, care]

Definition of 'Care'

From: GCIDE
  • Care \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. [1913 Webster]
  • Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Charge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility for safety and prosperity. [1913 Webster]
  • The care of all the churches. --2 Cor. xi. 28. [1913 Webster]
  • Him thy care must be to find. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • Perplexed with a thousand cares. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Attention or heed; caution; regard; heedfulness; watchfulness; as, take care; have a care. [1913 Webster]
  • I thank thee for thy care and honest pains. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. The object of watchful attention or anxiety. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Care'

From: GCIDE
  • Care \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. [1913 Webster]
  • I would not care a pin, if the other three were in. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Master, carest thou not that we perish? --Mark. iv. 38. [1913 Webster]
  • To care for. (a) To have under watchful attention; to take care of. (b) To have regard or affection for; to like or love. [1913 Webster]
  • He cared not for the affection of the house. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'care'

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Acronyms for 'care'

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