care

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)
• COUNT in NET: 78 in 75 verses (in OT : 61 in 58 verses) (in NT : 17 in 17 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

care, 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.].

•  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."  [1913 Webster]
•  Charge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility for safety and prosperity.  [1913 Webster]

  "The care of all the churches."  [1913 Webster]

  "Him thy care must be to find."  [1913 Webster]

  "Perplexed with a thousand cares."  [1913 Webster]
•  Attention or heed; caution; regard; heedfulness; watchfulness; as, take care; have a care.  [1913 Webster]

  "I thank thee for thy care and honest pains."  [1913 Webster]
•  The object of watchful attention or anxiety.  [1913 Webster]

  "Right sorrowfully mourning her bereaved cares."

Syn. -- Anxiety; solicitude; concern; caution; regard; management; direction; oversight. -- Care, Anxiety, Solicitude, Concern. These words express mental pain in different degress. Care belongs primar

care, v. i. [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."  [1913 Webster]
"Master, carest thou not that we perish?"  [1913 Webster]
"He cared not for the affection of the house."  [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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

care, n. & v.
--n.
1 worry, anxiety.
2 an occasion for this.
3 serious attention; heed, caution, pains (assembled with care; handle with care).
4 a protection, charge. b Brit. = child care.
5 a thing to be done or seen to.
--v.intr.
1 (usu. foll. by about, for, whether) feel concern or interest.
2 (usu. foll. by for, about, and with neg. expressed or implied) feel liking, affection, regard, or deference (don't care for jazz).
3 (foll. by to + infin.) wish or be willing (should not care to be seen with him; would you care to try them?).

Idiom

care for provide for; look after. care-label a label attached to clothing, with instructions for washing etc. care of at the address of (sent it care of his sister). for all one cares colloq. denoting uninterest or unconcern (for all I care they can leave tomorrow; I could be dying for all you care). have a care take care; be careful. I (etc.) couldn't (US could) care less colloq. an expression of complete indifference. in care Brit. (of a child) taken into the care of a local authority. take care
1 be careful.
2 (foll. by to + infin.) not fail or neglect.
take care of
1 look after; keep safe.
2 deal with.
3 dispose of.

Etymology

OE caru, carian, f. Gmc

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

care

Business

N business, occupation, employment, pursuit, what one is doing, what one is about, affair, concern, matter, case, matter in hand, irons in the fire, thing to do, agendum, task, work, job, chore, errand, commission, mission, charge, care, duty, part, role, cue, province, function, lookout, department, capacity, sphere, orb, field, line, walk, walk of life, beat, round, routine, race, career, office, place, post, chargeship, incumbency, living, situation, berth, employ, service, engagement, undertaking, vocation, calling, profession, cloth, faculty, industry, art, industrial arts, craft, mystery, handicraft, trade, exercise, work, avocation, press of business, businesslike, workaday, professional, official, functional, busy, on hand, in hand, in one's hands, afoot, on foot, on the anvil, going on, acting, in the course of business, all in one's day's work, professionally Adj, a business with an income at its heels, amoto quaeramus seria ludo, par negotiis neque supra.

Adversity

N adversity, evil, failure, bad luck, ill luck, evil luck, adverse luck, hard fortune, hard hap, hard luck, hard lot, frowns of fortune, evil dispensation, evil star, evil genius, vicissitudes of life, ups and downs of life, broken fortunes, hard case, hard lines, hard life, sea of troubles, peck of troubles, hell upon earth, slough of despond, trouble, hardship, curse, blight, blast, load, pressure, pressure of the times, iron age, evil day, time out of joint, hard times, bad times, sad times, rainy day, cloud, dark cloud, gathering clouds, ill wind, visitation, infliction, affliction, bitter pill, care, trial, the sport of fortune, mishap, mischance, misadventure, misfortune, disaster, calamity, catastrophe, accident, casualty, cross, reverse, check, contretemps, rub, backset, comedown, setback, losing game, falling, fall, downfall, ruination, ruinousness, undoing, extremity, ruin, unfortunate, unblest, unhappy, unlucky, improsperous, unprosperous, hoodooed, luckless, hapless, out of luck, in trouble, in a bad way, in an evil plight, under a cloud, clouded, ill off, badly off, in adverse circumstances, poor, behindhand, down in the world, decayed, undone, on the road to ruin, on its last legs, on the wane, in one's utmost need, planet-struck, devoted, born under an evil star, born with a wooden ladle in one's mouth, ill-fated, ill-starred, ill-omened, adverse, untoward, disastrous, calamitous, ruinous, dire, deplorable.

Restraint

N restraint, hindrance, coercion, cohibition, constraint, repression, suppression, discipline, control, confinement, durance, duress, imprisonment, incarceration, coarctation, entombment, mancipation, durance vile, limbo, captivity, blockade, arrest, arrestation, custody, keep, care, charge, ward, restringency, curb, lettres de cachet, limitation, restriction, protection, monopoly, prohibition, prisoner, repressionist, restrained, constrained, imprisoned, pent up, jammed in, wedged in, under lock and key, under restraint, under hatches, in swaddling clothes, on parole, in custody, doing time, cohibitive, coactive, stiff, restringent, strait-laced, hidebound, barkbound, ice bound, wind bound, weather bound, cabined cribbed confined, in Lob's pound, laid by the heels.

Economy

N economy, frugality, thrift, thriftiness, care, husbandry, good housewifery, savingness, retrenchment, savings, prevention of waste, save-all, cheese parings and candle ends, parsimony, cost-cutting, cost control, economical, frugal, careful, thrifty, saving, chary, spare, sparing, parsimonious, underpaid, sparingly, ne quid nimis, adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit, magnum est vectigal parsimonia.

Pain

N mental suffering, pain, dolor, suffering, sufferance, ache, smart, passion, displeasure, dissatisfaction, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet, malaise, inquietude, uneasiness, vexation of spirit, taking, discontent, dejection, weariness, anhedonia, annoyance, irritation, worry, infliction, visitation, plague, bore, bother, botheration, stew, vexation, mortification, chagrin, esclandre, mauvais quart d'heur, care, anxiety, solicitude, trouble, trial, ordeal, fiery ordeal, shock, blow, cark, dole, fret, burden, load, concern, grief, sorrow, distress, affliction, woe, bitterness, heartache, carking cares, heavy heart, aching heart, bleeding heart, broken heart, heavy affliction, gnawing grief, unhappiness, infelicity, misery, tribulation, wretchedness, desolation, despair, extremity, prostration, depth of misery, nightmare, ephialtes, incubus, pang, anguish, agony, torture, torment, purgatory, hell upon earth, iron age, reign of terror, slough of despond, peck of troubles, ills that flesh is heir to, miseries of human life, unkindest cut of all, sufferer, victim, prey, martyr, object of compassion, wretch, shorn lamb, in pain, in a state of pain, full of pain, suffering, pained, afflicted, worried, displeased, aching, griped, sore, on the rack, in limbo, between hawk and buzzard, uncomfortable, uneasy, ill at ease, in a taking, in a way, disturbed, discontented, out of humor, weary, heavy laden, stricken, crushed, a prey to, victimized, ill-used, unfortunate, to be pitied, doomed, devoted, accursed, undone, lost, stranded, fey, unhappy, infelicitous, poor, wretched, miserable, woe-begone, cheerless, careworn, concerned, sorry, sorrowing, sorrowful, cut up, chagrined, horrified, horror-stricken, in grief, plunged in grief, a prey to grief, in tears, steeped to the lips in misery, heart-stricken, heart-broken, heart-scalded, broken-hearted, in despair, the iron entered into our soul, haeret lateri lethalis arundo, one's heart bleeding, down, thou climbing sorrow, mirth cannot move a soul in agony, nessun maggior dolere che ricordarsi del tempo fel, sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier th, the Niobe of Nations.

Painfulness

N painfulness, trouble, care, trial, affliction, infliction, blow, stroke, burden, load, curse, bitter pill, bitter draught, waters of bitterness, annoyance, grievance, nuisance, vexation, mortification, sickener, bore, bother, pother, hot water, sea of troubles, hornet's nest, plague, pest, cancer, ulcer, sting, thorn, canker, scorpion, dagger, scourge, carking care, canker worm of care, mishap, misfortune, desagrement, esclandre, rub, source of irritation, source of annoyance, wound, open sore, sore subject, skeleton in the closet, thorn in the flesh, thorn in one's side, where the shoe pinches, gall and wormwood, sorry sight, heavy news, provocation, affront, head and front of one's offending, infestation, molestation, malignity, causing pain, hurting, hurtful, painful, dolorific, dolorous, unpleasant, unpleasing, displeasing, disagreeable, unpalatable, bitter, distasteful, uninviting, unwelcome, undesirable, undesired, obnoxious, unacceptable, unpopular, thankless, unsatisfactory, untoward, unlucky, uncomfortable, distressing, afflicting, afflictive, joyless, cheerless, comfortless, dismal, disheartening, depressing, depressive, dreary, melancholy, grievous, piteous, woeful, rueful, mournful, deplorable, pitiable, lamentable, sad, affecting, touching, pathetic, irritating, provoking, stinging, annoying, aggravating, mortifying, galling, unaccommodating, invidious, vexatious, troublesome, tiresome, irksome, wearisome, plaguing, plaguy, awkward, importunate, teasing, pestering, bothering, harassing, worrying, tormenting, carking, intolerable, insufferable, insupportable, unbearable, unendurable, past bearing, not to be borne, not to be endured, more than flesh and blood can bear, enough to drive one mad, enough to provoke a saint, enough to make a parson swear, enough to gag a maggot, shocking, terrific, grim, appalling, crushing, dreadful, fearful, frightful, thrilling, tremendous, dire, heart-breaking, heart-rending, heart-wounding, heart-corroding, heart-sickening, harrowing, rending, odious, hateful, execrable, repulsive, repellent, abhorrent, horrid, horrible, horrific, horrifying, offensive, nauseous, nauseating, disgusting, sickening, revolting, nasty, loathsome, loathful, fulsome, vile, hideous, sharp, acute, sore, severe, grave, hard, harsh, cruel, biting, caustic, cutting, corroding, consuming, racking, excruciating, searching, grinding, grating, agonizing, envenomed, catheretic, pyrotic, ruinous, disastrous, calamitous, tragical, desolating, withering, burdensome, onerous, oppressive, cumbrous, cumbersome, painfully, with pain, deuced, Int, hinc illae lachrymae!, surgit amari aliquid, the place being too hot to hold one, the iron entering into the soul, he jests at scars that never felt a wound, I must be cruel only to be kind, what deep wounds ever closed without a scar?.

Fear

N fear, timidity, diffidence, want of confidence, apprehensiveness, fearfulness, solicitude, anxiety, care, apprehension, misgiving, feeze, mistrust, suspicion, qualm, hesitation, nervousness, restlessness, inquietude, disquietude, worry, concern, batophobia, heartquake, flutter, trepidation, fear and trembling, perturbation, tremor, quivering, shaking, trembling, throbbing heart, palpitation, ague fit, cold sweat, abject fear, mortal funk, heartsinking, despondency, despair, fright, affright, affrightment, boof alarm, dread, awe, terror, horror, dismay, consternation, panic, scare, stampede (of horses), intimidation, terrorism, reign of terror, bug bear, bugaboo, scarecrow, hobgoblin, nightmare, Gorgon, mormo, ogre, Hurlothrumbo, raw head and bloody bones, fee-faw-fum, bete noire, enfant terrible, alarmist, fearing, frightened, in fear, in a fright, haunted with the fear of, afeard, afraid, fearful, timid, timorous, nervous, diffident, coy, faint- hearted, tremulous, shaky, afraid of one's shadow, apprehensive, restless, fidgety, more frightened than hurt, aghast, awe-stricken, horror-stricken, terror-stricken, panic- stricken, awestruck, awe-stricken, horror-struck, frightened to death, white as a sheet, pale, pale as a ghost, pale as death, pale as ashes, breathless, in hysterics, inspiring fear, alarming, formidable, redoubtable, perilous, portentous, fearful, dread, dreadful, fell, dire, direful, shocking, terrible, terrific, tremendous, horrid, horrible, horrific, ghastly, awful, awe-inspiring, revolting, Gorgonian, in terrorem, Int, angels and ministers of grace defend us!, ante tubam trepidat, horresco referens, one's heart failing one, obstupui steteruntque comae et vox faucibus haesit, a dagger of the mind, expertus metuit, fain would I climb but that I fear to fall, fear is the parent of cruelty, Gorgons and hydras and chimeras dire, omnia tuta timens, our fears do make us traitors.

Care

N care, solicitude, heed, heedfulness, scruple, watchfulness, vigilance, surveillance, eyes of Argus, watch, vigil, look out, watch and ward, loeil du maitre, alertness, attention, prudence &c, circumspection, anxiety, forethought, precaution, tidiness accuracy, minuteness, attention to detail, careful regardful, heedful, taking care, particular, prudent, considerate, thoughtful, provident, alert, sure-footed, guarded, on one's guard, on the qui vivre, on the alert, on watch, on the lookout, awake, broad awake, vigilant, watchful, wakeful, wistful, Argus-eyed, wide awake, on the watch for (expectant), tidy accurate, scrupulous, cavendo tutus, carefully, with care, gingerly, quis custodiet istos custodes?, who will watch the watchers?, care will kill a cat, ni bebas agua que no veas, O polished perturbation! Golden care!, the incessant care and labor of his mind.