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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Care \Care\ (k[^a]r), noun [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Care \Care\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Cared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Caring}.] [AS. cearian. See {Care}, noun] 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.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noun
1: 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}]
2: judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger; "he exercised caution in opening the door"; "he handled the vase with care" [syn: {caution}, {precaution}, {care}, {forethought}]
3: an anxious feeling; "care had aged him"; "they hushed it up out of fear of public reaction" [syn: {concern}, {care}, {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: {care}, {charge}, {tutelage}, {guardianship}]
6: activity involved in maintaining something in good working order; "he wrote the manual on car care" [syn: {care}, {maintenance}, {upkeep}]
verb
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: {care}, {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}, {care}, {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}, {care}, {handle}]
5: be concerned with; "I worry about my grades" [syn: {worry}, {care}]
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