Care

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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              Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
              And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. --Shak.
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     2. Charge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility
        for safety and prosperity.
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              The care of all the churches.         --2 Cor. xi.
                                                    28.
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              Him thy care must be to find.         --Milton.
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              Perplexed with a thousand cares.      --Shak.
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     3. Attention or heed; caution; regard; heedfulness;
        watchfulness; as, take care; have a care.
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              I thank thee for thy care and honest pains. --Shak.
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     4. The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
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              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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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           I would not care a pin, if the other three were in.
                                                    --Shak.
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           Master, carest thou not that we perish?  --Mark. iv.
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     {To care for}.
     (a) To have under watchful attention; to take care of.
     (b) To have regard or affection for; to like or love.
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               He cared not for the affection of the house.
                                                    --Tennyson.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  care
       n 1: the work of caring for or attending to someone or something;
            "no medical care was required"; "the old car needed
            constant attention" [syn: {attention}, {aid}, {tending}]
       2: judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger; "he exercised
          caution in opening the door"; "he handled the vase with
          care" [syn: {caution}, {precaution}, {forethought}]
       3: an anxious feeling; "care had aged him"; "they hushed it up
          out of fear of public reaction" [syn: {concern}, {fear}]
       4: a cause for feeling concern; "his major care was the illness
          of his wife"
       5: attention and management implying responsibility for safety;
          "he is in the care of a bodyguard" [syn: {charge}, {tutelage},
           {guardianship}]
       6: activity involved in maintaining something in good working
          order; "he wrote the manual on car care" [syn: {maintenance},
           {upkeep}]
       v 1: feel concern or interest; "I really care about my work"; "I
            don't care"
       2: provide care for; "The nurse was caring for the wounded"
          [syn: {give care}]
       3: prefer or wish to do something; "Do you care to try this
          dish?"; "Would you like to come along to the movies?"
          [syn: {wish}, {like}]
       4: 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}, {handle}]
       5: be concerned with; "I worry about my grades" [syn: {worry}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  406 Moby Thesaurus words for "care":
     TLC, abetment, accordance, accountability, acquittal, acquittance,
     adherence, administration, adverse circumstances, adversity,
     advertence, advertency, advocacy, aegis, affliction, agency,
     agentship, aggravation, agitation, agony, alarm, alertness,
     all-overs, angst, anguish, annoyance, anticipation, anxiety,
     anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern,
     anxious seat, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness,
     assiduity, assiduousness, assignment, attend to, attention,
     attention span, attentiveness, auspices, austerity,
     austerity program, authority, authorization, awareness, backing,
     be affected, be concerned, be fond of, be in tune, be inspired,
     be involved, be moved, be responsible for, bitter cup,
     bitter draft, bitter draught, bitter pill, blight, bossing, bread,
     brevet, bummer, burden, burden of care, calculation,
     cankerworm of care, canniness, care about, care for,
     careful consideration, carefulness, carking care, carrying out,
     catch the flame, catch the infection, caution, cautiousness,
     championship, change color, charge, chariness, charity,
     circumspection, circumspectness, color with emotion, commission,
     commissioning, commitment, compliance, concentration, concern,
     concernment, conduct, conformance, conformity, consciousness,
     consider, consideration, consignment, consternation, control,
     countenance, cross, crown of thorns, cure, curiosity, curse,
     custodianship, custody, daily bread, delegated authority,
     delegation, deliberate stages, deliberateness, deliberation,
     deputation, devolution, devolvement, difficulties, difficulty, dig,
     diligence, direction, discharge, discretion, dismay, disquiet,
     disquietude, distress, disturbance, dole, dolor, downer, dread,
     ear, earnestness, echo, economic planning, economic support,
     economicalness, economy, economy of means, effort, embassy,
     empathize with, empowerment, encouragement, encumbrance, endowment,
     enthusiasm, entrusting, entrustment, errand, execution,
     executorship, exequatur, exertion, eye, factorship, false economy,
     fancy, favor, fear, foreboding, forebodingness, forehandedness,
     forethought, fosterage, fret, frugality, frugalness, fulfillment,
     full power, gall, gall and wormwood, gingerliness, good management,
     goodwill, governance, government, grief, grievance, guardedness,
     guardianship, guarding, guidance, handling, hands, hard knocks,
     hard life, hard lot, hardcase, hardship, heartache, heartbreak,
     heartfelt grief, heartgrief, hedge, hedging, heed, heedfulness,
     heeding, hesitation, hold, husbandry, identify with, infliction,
     inquietude, intendance, intentiveness, intentness, interest,
     irritation, judiciousness, jurisdiction, keep, keeping,
     lamentation, languishment, legation, license, lieutenancy, like,
     livelihood, living, load, look after, love, loving care,
     maintenance, malaise, management, manna, means of dealing, meat,
     meticulousness, mind, mindfulness, ministry, misery, misgiving,
     mission, mothering, nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness,
     note, notice, nourishment, nurse, nurture, observance, observation,
     office, oppression, overanxiety, oversight, pack of troubles,
     pains, parsimoniousness, parsimony, pastorage, pastorate,
     pastorship, patronage, pawkiness, pay attention, peck of troubles,
     performance, perturbation, pining, pins and needles,
     plenipotentiary power, plight, power of attorney, power to act,
     practice, predicament, preparedness, pressure, preventive custody,
     price support, prior consultation, procuration, prostration,
     protect, protection, protective custody, protectorship,
     provide for, providence, provision, proxy, prudence,
     prudential administration, prudentialness, pucker, punctiliousness,
     purview, react, reck, regard, regardfulness, regency, regentship,
     regret, relate to emotionally, remark, respect, respond,
     responsibility, rigor, rue, running, sadness, safe hands,
     safekeeping, safeness, safety first, satisfaction, sea of troubles,
     seconding, share, slowness to act, solicitude, sorrow, sorrowing,
     sparingness, sponsorship, stew, stewardship, strain, stress,
     stress of life, subsidization, subsidy, subsistence, subvention,
     suffering, superintendence, superintendency, supervision, support,
     surveillance, suspense, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation,
     sympathize with, sympathy, take an interest, take care of,
     take charge of, task, tend, tender loving care, tension,
     tentativeness, think, thorn, thoroughness, thought, thoughtfulness,
     thrift, thriftiness, tight purse strings, treatment, trial,
     tribulation, trouble, troubles, trust, trusteeship, tutelage,
     uncommunicativeness, unease, uneasiness, unprecipitateness,
     unquietness, unwastefulness, upkeep, upset, usage, vale of tears,
     vexation, vicarious authority, vicissitude, vigilance, ward,
     wardenship, wardship, warrant, watch and ward, watch over,
     watchfulness, waters of bitterness, weight, wing, woe, worry,
     zeal
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

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