Care

Definition: Care

Care

Noun

1. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something; "no medical care was required"; "the old car needed constant attention".

2. Judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger; "he exercised caution in opening the door"; "he handled the vase with care".

3. An anxious feeling; "care had aged him"; "they hushed it up out of fear of public reaction".

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 under the care of a physician".

6. Activity involved in maintaining something in good working order; "he wrote the manual on car care".

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".

3. Prefer or wish to do something; "Do you care to try this dish?" "Would you like to come along to the movies?".

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".

5. Be concerned with; "I worry about my grades".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "care" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Multilingual Slang

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Care

Adversity

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; (painfulness); bitter pill; care, trial; the sport of fortune.

Business

Matter in hand, irons in the fire; thing to do, agendum, task, work, job, chore, errand, commission, mission, charge, care; duty.

Economy

Noun: economy, frugality; thrift, thriftiness; care, husbandry, good housewifery, savingness, retrenchment.

Fear

Noun: fear, timidity, diffidence, want of confidence; apprehensiveness, fearfulness; Adjective: solicitude, anxiety, care, apprehension, misgiving; feeze; mistrust; (doubt); suspicion, qualm; hesitation; (irresolution).

Pain

Noun: painfulness; Adjective: trouble, care; (pain); trial; affliction, infliction; blow, stroke, burden, load, curse; bitter pill, bitter draught; waters of bitterness.

Restraint

Arrest, arrestation; custody, keep, care, charge, ward, restringency.

Crosswords: Care

Albanian (Tsarina), Pidgin English (care), Portuguese (CARE, Community database on road accidents), Romanian (as, some, that, what, which, whichever, who).

Who will take care of me my love, my dark angel, when you are gone (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

I'll take care of the squealing, wretched, pinhead puppets of Gotham (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters)

I don't care! All I know is we didn't build it, and that's reason enough to assume the worst and blow it to kingdom come (The Iron Giant; writing credit: Brad Bird)

Shouldn't everybody care about everybody else (On the Waterfront; writing credit: Budd Schulberg.)

Forget it, I dont care. (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.)

I care 4 u. (I Care 4 U; performing artist: Aaliyah)

See if I care (Don't Turn Around; performing artist: Ace Of Base)

Like you didn't care ("Walk This Way"; performing artist: Aerosmith)

You won't have to ask if I still care (I Swear; performing artist: All-4-One)

But I don't care for sugar honey if I can't have you (Walking On Broken Glass; performing artist: Annie Lennox)

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either. (references; author: Mark Twain)

I'm old enough to know better, but I'm still too young to care. (references; author: unknown)

Take care of your character, and your reputation will take care of itself. (references; author: unknown)

The opposite of love is not hate, but apathy. You cannot hate someone you don't care about. (references; author: unknown)

A person is grown up not when he can take care of himself, but when he can take care of others. (references; author: unknown)

Daddy Day Care (2003)

Damaged Care (2002)

Tender Loving Care (1974)

Intensive Care (1974)

Taking Care of Mother Baldwin (1970)

You'll Never, Never Know I Care (performing artist: Platters)

I'm Gonna Take Care of Everything (performing artist: Rubicon)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Care UK Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Australian Hospital Care Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Bone Care International Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Allou Health & Beauty Care, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Aqua Care Systems, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Lake Tanganyikan Cichlids: Everything About Purchasing, Care, Nutrition, Behaviour, and Aquarium Maintenance (Barron's Complete Pet Owner's Manuals) (reference)

• Medical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine (Health Informatics.) (reference)

• Balm for Gilead: Pastoral Care for African American Families Experiencing Abuse (reference)

• Gray-Banded Kingsnakes: Identification, Care and Breeding (reference)

• Bar Code Technology in Health Care : Tool for Enhancing Quality Productivity and Cost Management (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Advances In Skin & Wound Care (reference)

• Alabama Health Care In Perspective - Paperbound (reference)

• Alzheimers Care Guide (reference)

• Arizona Managed Care (reference)

• Bests Managed Care Reports Hmo - Cd-rom - Regular Service (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Cardiac Care and Recovery: A Self Healing Program (reference)

• Care Bears:Lucky Charm/Braces (reference)

• The Care Bears Movie / The Water Babies (reference)

• Care Bears:Rainy Day Activities (reference)

• Care and Maintenance of Common Aquatic Turtles (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Takin Care of Christmas (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Kodak Gear Camera Care Kit (reference)

• Deluxe Care Case (Light Green) (reference)

• Deluxe Care Case (Orange) (reference)

• Micro Innovations Portable CD Disc Cleaner With Cleaner CD Care Kit & Instructions (reference)

• MULTIPASS CARE EXTENDED SERVICE (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Graco Care Station Pack n Play - Saratoga (reference)

• Hospital's Choice Deluxe Nursery Care Kit (reference)

• Nursery and Bath Care Set (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

1) A temporary administration building for M.D. Anderson was set up in 1940 in this converted residence known as "the oaks" on the former Baker Estate near downtown Houston. 2) biochemistry and biology laboratories were set up in late 1942 by five scientists using this one-time stable and carriage house on the old Baker Estate. The first patients were seen in other converted residential quarters starting in March, 1944. 3) the permanent home for University of Texas M.D. Anderson hospital began taking shape in the early 1950s in the newly designated Texas Medical Center, which only a few years earlier had been "way out in the woods". 4) M.D. Anderson's first seven-story structure was opened for patient care on March 19, 1954. This initial building contained 310 beds, which were phased into use over a five-year period, along with facilities for cancer research and educational activities. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

A physician examines an infant in the intensive care unit (ICU), accompanied by the child's foster mother and various other medical staff. There are 3 different angles. See artwork: NCI-40. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Zairian and CDC clinicians care for a patient with Ebola VHF in the Kikwit General Hospital in Zaire, 1995. Credit: CDC.

Pictured here is a trial run of a patient taken from CDC to a nearby medical center. A doctor is administering care to the patient with supportive help from the Isolation Unit medical staff. Credit: CDC.

Life was good - Amah's to care for the babies Patricina with baby. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Instrument station near Station 189 "Care needed in moving" International Boundary Survey. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Care packages onto a C-17 Globemaster III.

Master Sgt. Joe Sanfilippo tends to an 'injured' patient during the Self-Aid and Buddy Care test at Top Dollar 2000 in Gulfport, Ms. Assisting is 1st Lt. Amy Austgen and looking on in the back is Staff Sgt. Heesoon Bartlett. All three are members of the.

Students receive instruction on plant care of a nursery owner in Maryland. Credit: Ron Nichols.

Care of private land is important for the future of those who will farm the land as well as those who will reap the benefits of a healthy land. Credit: Tim McCabe.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A few established laws served the turn, and the discretion and care of the ruler supplied the rest. (Second Treatise of Government)

He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States. (reference)

The Communists fight for the attainment of the immediate aims, for the enforcement of the momentary interests of the working class; but in the movement of the present, they also represent and take care of the future of that movement. (reference)

The sale of a security held for an unpaid debt owing by an enemy shall be deemed to have been valid irrespective of notice to the owner if the creditor acted in good faith and with reasonable care and prudence, and no claim by the debtor on the ground of such sale shall be admitted. (reference)

Already we use together a large number of islands; more may well be entrusted to our joint care in the near future. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Indeed you should take care of yourself as well as of your friend

I took her up with scrupulous care, and her little arm was at once clasped trustfully round my neck

But what did Scrooge care! It was the very thing he liked

Take care! At the first corner, Grenetat will make a Caudine Forks

Cranly came out through the door of the entrance hall, his hat thrust back on the nape of his neck and picking his teeth with care.

Alas, why would you heap this care on me

His fingers felt that something was wrong, but did not care enough to find out.

Glumdalclitch stood upon a stool on the floor, near my table, to assist and take care of me.

We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Visit your health care provider. (references)

Taking Care of Pain Is Important. (references)

Advise on health care management. (references)

Business

Firms such as Care mark, Watakyu are fairly inactive at present. (references)

Russia's private health care insurance system is only developing. (references)

Some schools demand the best products and don't care about prices. (references)

Children

Korea

High-quality health care is widely available to children. (references)

Lebanon

Families generally perform care of persons with disabilities. (references)

Antigua and Barbuda

Children have access to health care and other public services. (references)

Civil Liberties

Austria

The care of unaccompanied minor asylum seekers also has been inadequate. (references)

Russia

The Interior Ministry assumed responsibility for migration policy and the care of IDP's. (references)

Yugoslavia

Many Roma refugees, on the other hand, live in collective centers, with only limited access to health care and education. (references)

Discrimination

South Africa

The act addresses discrimination in a broad context in the workplace, health care, education, services, pensions, and other socio-economic areas. (references)

Germany

The law prohibits the denial of access to housing, health care, or education on the basis of race, religion, disability, sex, ethnic background, political opinion, or citizenship. (references)

Economic History

Mexico

Take care before granting "open account" treatment. (references)

Human Rights

Vietnam

Most prisoners have access to basic health care. (references)

Kenya

There is little access to health care and medicine. (references)

Chad

The most critically injured had to be evacuated for medical care. (references)

Indigenous People

Thailand

They sometimes are denied adequate education and health care. (references)

Guyana

Access to education and health care in Amerindian communities is limited severely. (references)

Brazil

FUNAI also has been unable to provide mandated health care and other basic services. (references)

Minorities

Kuwait

Bidoon pay more for medical care than citizens do, although less than third-country residents. (references)

Yemen

Christian clergy who minister to the foreign community are employed in teaching, social services, and health care. (references)

Yugoslavia

Bosniak Muslims in the Sandzak region alleged discrimination in housing, employment, health care, commerce, and education. (references)

Political Economy

Kuwait

Public health care is currently provided free of charge to all citizens of Kuwait. (references)

HUNGARY

The next areas of government finance reform are health care and local government financing. (references)

Pakistan

Female children still lag far behind boys in education, health care, and other social indices. (references)

Trade

Norway

The transaction bank generally takes care of this reporting. (references)

Indonesia

Typically, the Indonesian importer takes care of this process. (references)

Costa Rica

Consequently, great care must be taken to avoid errors and infractions. (references)

Travel

Nicaragua

Local hospitals are adequate for basic care. (references)

Guyana

Health: Medical care is inadequate in Guyana. (references)

Spain

Medical facilities: Good medical care is available. (references)

Women

Yemen

Most women have little access to basic health care. (references)

Poland

Both men and women have the right to claim child sick care. (references)

Afghanistan

Taliban actions significantly reduced women's access to health care. (references)

Worker Rights

Bhutan

Workers are entitled to free medical care within the country. (references)

Ghana

They seldom receive sufficient food or health care, and do not attend school. (references)

Kuwait

Adequate and affordable health care remains a problem for many foreign workers. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "care": a fat lot i care ♦ after care ♦ all i care ♦ ambulatory health care ♦ Ambulatory Care ♦ Ambulatory Care Facilities ♦ Ambulatory Care Information Systems ♦ ambulatory mental health care ♦ Angel Chiropractic Care ♦ antenatal care ♦ be care of ♦ be free from care ♦ be in care of smb. ♦ beauty care ♦ being taken care of ♦ camera care ♦ Cancer Care Facilities ♦ canker worm of care ♦ car care ♦ Cardiac Care Facilities ♦ care a fig ♦ care a hang ♦ care about ♦ care delivery ♦ care for ♦ care home ♦ care label ♦ care nothing ♦ care of ♦ care to ♦ care to do smth. ♦ care worry ♦ carking care ♦ cast away care ♦ child care ♦ child care facilities ♦ Child Day Care Centers ♦ Comprehensive Dental Care ♦ Comprehensive Health Care ♦ Continuity of Patient Care ♦ coronary care unit ♦ Coronary Care Units ♦ corroding care ♦ Critical Care ♦ critical care medicine ♦ curative care ♦ Custodial Care ♦ Day Care ♦ day care center ♦ day care centre ♦ Delivery of Health Care ♦ Dental Care ♦ Dental Care for Aged ♦ Dental Care for Children ♦ Dental Care for Chronically Ill ♦ Dental Care for Disabled ♦ dependent care ♦ Devil may care ♦ domiciliary care ♦ don't care a rap ♦ don't care state ♦ drive dull care away ♦ due care ♦ Episode of Care ♦ expend care ♦ extended care facility ♦ floor care ♦ floor care machine ♦ Foot Care ♦ for all i care ♦ for aught i care ♦ Foster Home Care ♦ free from care ♦ free of care ♦ freedom from care ♦ full of care ♦ give care ♦ great care ♦ hair care ♦ handle smb. with care ♦ handle with care ♦ he does not care a straw ♦ he doesn't care a rap ♦ health care ♦ Health Care Coalitions ♦ Health Care Costs ♦ health care delivery ♦ Health Care Economics and Organizations ♦ Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms ♦ Health Care Inspectorate ♦ health care provider ♦ Health Care Rationing ♦ Health Care Reform ♦ Health Care Sector ♦ Health Care Surveys ♦ home care ♦ Home Care Agencies ♦ Home Care Services ♦ Hospice Care ♦ hospital care ♦ i care about it. Additional references.

Beginning with "care": Care-alan, care-and-maintenance, Care-call, Care-control, care-eliciting, care-excluding, care-free, care-ful, care-ful-ly, care-giver, care-givers, care-giving, care-giving-related, care-he, care-laden, care-leaver, care-leavers, care-lessly, care-line, care-link, Care-of-cook, care-oriented, care-plans, care-related, care-seeking, care-staff, care-taker, care-taker government, care-takers, care-taking, Care-tuned, care-type, care-work, care-worn.

Ending with "care": after-care, child-care, ex-care, hair-care, patient-care, primary-care, skin-care, special-care.

Containing "care": couldn't-care-less.

Afrikaans

sorg (see, take, take care, worry). (various references)

Albanian

vëmendje (assiduity, attention, attentiveness, carefulness, concentration, consideration, heed, note, notice, regard, thought), shqetësohem (fash, feeze, fluster, fret, fuss about, get excited, go off the deep end, take on, trouble, worry), shqetësim (affliction, agitation, anxiety, bother, concern, discomfort, discomposure, displeasure, disquiet, disquietude, distemper, distress, disturbance, fash, fear, feeling, fidget, flurry, fret, Fry, harassment, inconvenience, inquietude, moil, perturbation, plague, preoccupation, qualm, restlessness, solicitude, trepidation, trouble, tumult, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest, vexation, worry), pyes (ask, demand, enquire, inquire, interrogate, query, question, quiz), përkujdesje (assiduity, attendance, attention, precaution, solicitude), merak (anxiety, carefulness, concern, disturbance, pains, preoccupation, stew, unrest, worry), kujdestari (custody, guardianship, protectorship, stewardship, trusteeship, wardship), kujdesem (attend, be careful, care about, mind, ware), kujdes (carefulness, caution, cautiousness, chariness, circumspection, deliberation, diligence, guard, lo, look out, nursing, pains, regard, safeguard, take care, tendance, thought, treatment, trust, wariness), kam kujdes, interesohem (be interested, be interested in, check up, fall for, take an interest, take an interest in), gajle (fret), dua (aim, appreciate, be fond of, be keen on, be willing to, care for, choose, do with, fancy, intend, like, love, please, seek, take a fancy to, want, wish), dëshiroj (aspire, choose, crave, desiderate, desire, like, list, love, please, want, wish, wish for), andrallë (trouble). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كنف (auspices, patronage, protection), ‏هم (concern, matter, reck, solicitude, their, them, they, those, trouble, worry), ‏حنان (kindness, love, pity, tenderness, warm-heartedness), ‏حذر (admonish, advise, alert, alertness, be careful, be wise, beware, cagey, calculating, calculation, canny, careful, caution, cautious, cautiousness, chariness, chary, considerate, discreet, discreetness, discretion, exhort, fabian, forewarn, guard, guarded, guarding, heedful, leery, look behind, look out, lookout, mind, on the alert, on the lookout, prudence, prudent, safe, shy, shyness, sound an alarm, suspicious, take care, vigilance, vigilant, wariness, warn, wary, watch, wide awake), ‏حرص (assiduity, attention, jealousy, take notice), ‏تعهد (assurance, assure, bind, bond, commit oneself, commitment, contract, engage, engagement, guardianship, mind, nurse, obligation, pledge, plight, promise, protection, stipulate, undertake, undertaking, warrant), ‏عهدة (guardianship, protection), ‏عناية (attendance, attention, concern, custody, heed, interest, keeping, notice), ‏الرعاية الروحية, ‏إعتنى (attend, care about, groom, interest, look after, mean, see to, tend), ‏أراد (choose, intend, want, will, wish, would), ‏رقابة (censorship, inspection, observation, stop, supervision), ‏رغب (choose, crave, desire, feel like, give the willies, interest, want, will, wish), ‏رعاية (auspices, charge, cultivation, custody, favor, favour, inspection, nursing, patronage, protection, sponsor, sponsorship, tutorship, ward), ‏شخص موضع عناية. (various references)

Basque

zaindu (nurse to, take care of to). (various references)

Bulgarian 

харесва ми (care for, list), грижа се (bother, care about, concern, fend, provide, trouble), грижа (attention, concern, custody, heed, keeping, look out, oversight, regard, solicitude, study, tendance, trouble, worriment, worrit, worry), отговорност (accountability, amenability, blame, charge, job, liability, look out, responsibility, trust), обичам (affect, be fond of, care for, enjoy, like, love, taste), наблюдение (look out, observation, supervision, surveillance, watch), надзор (control, inspection, oversight, regiment, superintendence, supervision, surveillance), безпокоя се (trouble), безпокойство (alarm, anxiety, bother, concernment, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, fash, harassment, inconvenience, inquietude, malaise, plague, qualm, ruffle, trepidation, trouble, uneasiness, upset, whim-wham, worriment, worrit, worry), предпазливост (caution, chariness, circumspection, deliberation, guardedness, heed, precaution, prudence, wariness), попечение (cure). (various references)

Chinese 

關照 (concern, to keep an eye on, to look after), 关心 (Cared, Caring, concern, Concerned). (various references)

Czech

trápení (harassment, misery, plague, suffering, torment, torture, trouble, vexation, worry), svìdomitost (conscientiousness, scrupulosity, thoroughness), starost (anxiety, charge, concern, fash, lookout), starat se (Chevy, fend for oneself, see to, take care), péèe (charge, custody, keeping), opatrnost (caution, policy, precaution, prudence, wariness), úzkost (alarm, anguish, anxiety, apprehension, distress, heartache, worry). (various references)

Danish

sorg (concern). (various references)

Dutch

zorgen (see, take care, worries, worry), zich bekommeren (see, take care, worry). (various references)

Esperanto

zorgo (concern), zorgi (see, take care, worry), prizorgo. (various references)

Faeroese

syrgja fyri (see, take care, worry), leggja seg eftir (see, take care, worry), ansa eftir (away we go, guard, keep, let's start, look after, nurse, see, take care, watch over, worry). (various references)

Farsi 

پرواداشتن (Reck), پرستاری (Attendance), مواظبت (Assistance, Attendance, Attention, Vigilance), غم خوردن , تیمار (Attendance), علاقمندبودن , بیم (Awe, Dread, Misgiving, Phobia, Qualm, Scare, Scruple, Scrupulosity). (various references)

Finnish

varovaisuus (carefulness, caution, cautiousness), välittää (act as an intermediary, arrange supply, connect, convey, mediate, mind, negotiate, pay attention, provide, relay, transmit), murhe (grief, sorrow), huosta (charge, custody, possession), huolto (logistics, maintenance, service, servicing, supply, welfare), huolia (mind), huoli (anxiety, carefulness, worry), huolenpito (charge), huolellisuus (carefulness), huolehtia (arrange, attend to, be anxious, look after, see, see to, take care, worry), homma (bustle, duty, he has too many things on his hands, he is too busy, undertaking), hoiva, hoito (administration, attendance, management, nursing, therapy, treatment). (various references)

French

souci, soin (carefulness), s'occuper (take care). (various references)

German

Sorge (alarm, anxiety, anxiousness, concern, distress, problem, sorrow, trouble, worry), sorgfalt (accurateness, carefulness, diligence, particularity, thoroughness), Pflege (attention, cultivation, fostering, maintenance, ministration, nursing, nursing care, nurture, upkeep), versorgung (accommodation, arrival, arrivals, feed, input, ordnance, providing, provision, supply), Sorgfältigkeit (painstakingness, thoroughness), sorgen (be accustomed, be in the habit, care for, cares, cater, ensure, fend, look after, pains, provide, see, solicitudes, sorrows, supply, take care, tend, worries, worry). (various references)

Greek 

φροντίδα (attention, charge, concern, forethought, preoccupation, provision, solicitude), νοιάζομαι (bother about, care about, concern, matter, mind), προσοχή (advertence, attention, beware of, caution, circumspection, heed, intentness, note, notice, oyez, regard, thoughtfulness, wakefulness, watchfulness), φροντίζω (care for, cater for, fend for, keep an eye on, look after, mind, nurse, reck, see about, see to, service, take care, ten, tend). (various references)

Guarani

eñangareko (care for). (various references)

Hebrew 

להיות אכפת (mind), להשגיח (look after, look out, monitor, notice, oversee, regard, supervise, tend, watch), לדאוג ל- (care about, provide for, regard, see, see to), לטפל (attend, groom, see, see about, treat), איכפת ל- (be anxious), זהירות (carefulness, caution, discreetness, discretion, look out, mind, observation, prudence, steady, take care, wariness), דאגה (anxiety, concern, fear, solicitude, worry), טפול (attendance, handling, maintenance, nursing, treatment), טפוח (attendance, breeding, cultivation, fostering, nursing). (various references)

Hungarian

gondoskodás (assiduity, charge, foresight, forethought, maintenance, providing, provision, regard, solicitude), aggodalom (alarm, anguish, anxiety, concern, disquietude, flutter, misgiving, misgivings, worry), törődés (bruise, concern, regard, thought), gondozás (attendance, attention, maintenance, nursing, nurture, servicing), gondosság (daintiness, diligence, heed, solicitude, thoughtfulness), gond (attention, chagrin, concern, discomfort, headache, pits, preoccupation, problem, snag, trouble, worry). (various references)

Indonesian

urus (nurse), pengasuhan (nurture), peduli, bena (particularly), asi (attention), acuh. (various references)

Irish

cúram (family, responsibility). (various references)

Italian

cura (charge, concern, cure, custody, handling, heed, notice, treatment). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

丁寧 (careful, close, courteous, kind, polite). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きくばり (attention, attentiveness, consideration), きぐろう (anxiety, worry), くったく (worry), しんぱい (anxiety, concern, worry), ねんいれ (conscientiousness, scrupulousness), ねん (attention, concern, desire, feeling, idea, sense, thought), ぶいく (tending), ほご (complement, favor, guardianship, patronage, protection, scrap paper, shelter, wastepaper), かいしん (bringing up to date, caution, congeniality, conversion, depth of the sea, discretion, doctor's hospital rounds, Neptune, Poseidon, precaution, progress, reform, reformation, satisfaction, sea god, seaquake, transgression), ごねん (consideration, worry), めんどう (attention, difficulty, trouble), ケア , やっかい (bother, burden, dependence, kindness, obligation, support, translating and explaining, trouble, worry), ようじん (caution, common man, guarding, important person, precaution), ていねい (careful, close, conscientious, courteous, kind, polite, thorough). (various references)

Korean 

배려. (various references)

Manx

imnea (anxiety, concern, disquiet, nervousness, unease, worry), currym (appointment, assignment, benefice, business, custody, duty, engagement, funeral, guardianship, obligation, portfolio, post, responibility, task, trust), boirey (aggrieve, annoy, bother, confuse, confusion, disconcert, disrupt, disruption, distract, distraction, disturb, embarrass, embarrassment, heartache, madden, molestation, niggle, nuisance, perplex, perturb, perturbation, pester, preoccupy, put upon, row, strife, trouble, vex, worrier, worry), arrey (attention, Cabinet minister, caution, feeder, guard, guard post, invigilation, look out, reserve, surveillance, vigilance, watch). (various references)

Occitan

sonhar (nurse, take care of). (various references)

Papiamen

sòru (see, take care, worry). (various references)

Pidgin English

care. (various references)

Pig Latin

arecay.(various references)

Polish

troszczyć się (see, take care, worry), dbać (see, take care, worry). (various references)

Portuguese

cuidado (accuracy, attention, caution, heed, keeping, labored, laboured, neatness, nursing, outlook, painstaking, punctuality, river-horse, solicitude, tendance, thought, vigilance, watch, watchout, worry), cuidar (attend, cherish, cradle, lap, nurse, take care, worry). (various references)

Romanian

cãutare (call, pursuit, quest, recognition, research, run, search, searching, seeking), nelinişte (agitation, anxiety, apprehension, concern, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, ferment, flurry, fret, inquietude, perturbation, restlessness, trouble, uneasiness, unrest, worry), îngrijire (accuracy, attendance, attention, caution, neatness, nurse, nursing, solicitude, supervision, treatment), a-i pãsa de, atenţie (acuity, advertence, advertency, attention, be careful, careful, carefulness, caution, closeness, complaisance, consideration, deliberation, have a care, heed, here goes, homage, interest, look out, lookout, mindfulness, note, notice, observance, regard, remark, stand by, thought, vigilance, watch), avea grijã de (administer to, care for, carry, keep, look after, look towards, mind, nurse, overlook, see, see after, take care of), bãgare de seamã (deliberation, heed, lookout, observance, wariness, watch), îngriji (attend, breed, doctor, groom, keep, nurse, raise, rear, see, take care, tend, worry), necaz (annoyance, bother, cankerworm, cross, difficulty, distress, evil, furnace, gall, grief, grudge, handful, infliction, mess, mischief, need, pain, resentment, Ruth, sorrow, spite, suffering, trouble, upset, vexation, worriment), supãrare (affliction, anger, annoyance, bitterness, burden, chafe, cloud, cross, damage, Dander, fury, grief, harm, irritation, mood, moroseness, mumps, pain, peevishness, pet, pettishness, pique, rage, Ruth, sadness, sorrow, spite, spunk, suffering, sulk, trouble, vexation), preocupare (avocation, concern, object, preoccupation, pursuit, work), prevedere (augury, discretion, forecast, foreknowledgement, foresight, forethought, precaution, prevision, Providence, provision, prudence), prudenţã (carefulness, caution, cautiousness, chariness, deliberation, forecast, prudence, stay), se îngriji de (attend, do for, fend, keep, look after, mind, nurse, provide for, see about smth.), se îngrijora (see, take care, worry), se sinchisi (mind), sinchisealã (trouble), grijã (alarm, anxiety, attention, carefulness, charge, chariness, conscientiousness, custody, deliberation, foresight, harassment, mindfulness, neatness, observance, painstaking, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, solicitude, thought, trouble, worriment, worry). (various references)

Russian 

внимание (attention, attn, great care, heed, note, notice, regard, watch), осторожность (caution, circumspection, discreetness, discretion, heed, nicety, prudence, wariness, watchfulness), осмотрительность (canniness, circumspection, deliberation, discreetness, discretion, wariness), забота (attention, concern, harassment, mothering, palaver, preoccupation, regard, tendance, thought, thoughtfullness, thoughtfulness), заботиться (attend, care about, do a thing, exercise care, look after, mind, reck, see to, see to it, study, take care of), беспокоиться (fash, feeze, fret, trouble), попечение (charge), интересовать забота, иметь желание. (various references)

Scottish

cùram (anxiety, charge), sgoinn (attention, efficacy, neatness, trimness), saod (attention, condition, journey, journey;, state), nàistinn, muirichinn (children, family; burden), imnidh, faicill (caution, watchfulness), ùidh (a ford, desire, fondness, hope, partiality). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zabrinutost (feeze, preoccupation, solicitude, trouble, uneasiness, worry), zaštita (advocacy, aegis, defence, lee, patronage, protection, safeguard), pažnja (attention, heed, tendance), negovati (cherish, nurse, tend), nega (attendance, nursing, rearing), mariti (matter, mind, reck), briga (bother, botheration, concern, trouble, worry), želeti (desire, like, want, wish). (various references)

Sotho

itlhokomele (take care of yourself). (various references)

Spanish

cuidado (attention, carefulness, caution, concern, fondling, keeping, nursing, painstaking, worry), cuidar (attend, babysit, fondle, groom, look after, look to, mind, nurse, pay attention, reck, see, take care, tend, tend to, worry). (various references)

Sranan

span (see, take care, worry), sorgu (concern, see, take care, worry). (various references)

Swedish

vård (attendance, attention, charge, keeping, memorial, ministration, monument, welfare), skötsel (attendance, conduct, maintenance, management, nursing, operation, tending, working), omtanke (concern, consideration, solicitude), omsorg (attention, concern, parental care, welfare), försiktighet (caution, chariness, circumspection, prudence), ans (dressing, tending (the soil)). (various references)

Turkish

hoşlanmak (affect, be attracted, be partial to, be pleased with, be taken by, be taken with, click, delight, dig, enjoy, fancy, have a liking for smb., like, relish, take a fancy to, take a shine to smb., take to), önemsemek (attach importance to, care about, have a high opinion of, heed, make much of, mind, notice, pay attention to, take heed of), özen (application, assiduity, attention, elaboration, jealousy, pains, painstaking, solicitude, thought), özen göstermek (cross one's t's, elaborate, fuss, make a point of, nurse, take care, take care of, take pains), üzüntü (affliction, chagrin, damp, dejection, desolation, distress, disturbance, fret, grief, hurt, mopes, regret, sadness, sorrow, straits, trouble, unhappiness, woe, worry), aldırış (attention), bakım (aspect, attendance, attention, custody, handling, keep, keeping, maintenance, nurse, nurseling, nursing, nursling, nurture, overhaul, point of view, regard, respect, upkeep, way), bakim (concern), beğenmek (applaud, appreciate, approve, decide on, decide up, enjoy, like, relish), borç (accommodation, arrear, arrears, debit, debt, encumbrance, liability, loan, obligation, red), dikkat (application, attention, attentiveness, beware, carefulness, caution, cautiousness, cave, fore, look out, note, notice, regard, remark, shun, ware, watch out, watchfulness), endişe (agitation, angst, anxiety, apprehension, concern, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, doubt, fear, fears, fret, inquietude, perturbation, preoccupation, qualm, scruple, solicitude, stew, suspense, uneasiness, worry), endişelenmek (be worried, bother about, feel uneasy about smth., fret, mind, stew, sweat blood, tremble, worry), önem vermek (attach importance to, consider important, feature, give weight to, look to, make a point of, note, regard, take cognizance of, value), himaye (asylum, auspices, defence, keep, keeping, patronage, protection, safeguard, shield, sponsorship), yapılması gereken şey, ilgi (affinity, attachment, attention, bearing, concern, connection, connexion, curiosity, interest, involvement, liking, pertinence, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relativeness, relevance, relevancy, respect, solicitude, sympathies, sympathy, thought), ilgi duymak (give importance to, go in for), ilgilenmek (be hot for, be interested in, be into, concern oneself, deal, do, look after, nibble, nurse, pay attention to, see about, see after, see to, take care of, weigh in), itina (attention, painstaking), kafaya takmak (have a bee in one's bonnet, mind, nurse, set one's heart on), kaygı (anxiety, apprehension, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, fear, fears, inquietude, perturbation, preoccupation, solicitude, worry), kendini üzmek, merak (anxiety, avocation, bug, concern, crotchet, curiosity, disquiet, disquietude, fad, fancy, hobby, interest, sensation, whim, wonderment, worry), merak etmek (be anxious, be curious, wonder, worry), sevmek (affect, be fond of, be sweet on smb., caress, dandle, enjoy, fancy, fondle, like, love, pet), tasa (concern, mopes, sorrow), umurunda olmak, vecibe (sacred duty), hevesli olmak. (various references)

Turkmen 

юцwьr (wakefulness), ideg (surveillance, tending), gцzeg. (various references)

Ukrainian

тривожитися (worry), догляд (attendance, attention, charge, keeping, ministration, oversight, watch), доглядати (attend, overlook, see after, tend), пристрасть (appetence, appetite, ardency, ardour, bias, desire, flame, fondness, leaning, lust, partiality, passion, predilection, propensity, rage, weakness, yen), піклування (attention, charge, custody, heed, ministering, nevermind, thought), піклуватися (attend, fend, heed, reck), бажати (admire, choose, desire, please, want, will, wish), любов (affection, amour, dearness, liking, love, passion), мати бажання, дбати (attend, look to), обережність (alertness, canniness, caution, chariness, circumspection, deliberation, discretion, heed, nicety, precaution, wariness), схильність (addiction, amenability, appetite, aptitude, aptness, bend, bent, hang, leaning, penchant, polarity, predisposition, prepossession, strain, taste, vein), тривога (alarm, alert, anxiety, disquiet, tizzy, trepidation, worry), турбота (anxiety, bother, charge, concern, inconvenience, preoccupation, solicitude, suspense, trouble, work, worry), турбуватися (bother, feel bad, take care, trouble), цікавитися (concern, pry, wonder), хотіти (choose, desire, please, want, will, wish), хвилювання (agitation, boil, bubble, disturbance, excitation, feeze, fermentation, fizzle, heartbeat, perturbation, pother, pucker, stirring, swell, throb, uproar), хвилюватися (bother, create, effervesce, fidget, flutter, grizzle, mind, raise a dust, run high, stew, throb, wave, welter), ретельність (application, assiduity, diligence, eagerness, nicety, rigor, rigour, severity), уважність (application, attention), непокоїтися (distress oneself, fash). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sầu bạc tóc, sự thận trọng sự lo âu, sự giữ gìn (carefulness, conservation, keeping, precaution, restraint), sự chú ý (account, advertence, advertency, heedfulness, interest, nevermind, observation, regard), sự chăn sóc, sự chăm nom, sự cẩn thận (prudence, religiousness), sự bảo dưỡng sự chăm chú. (various references)

Welsh

cyfarchwel (oversight, shelter), cur (ache, beat, pain, throb, trouble), ymgeledd (helpmeet), meindio (mind), malio (heed, mind), gofalu (mind, take care), gofal (charge). (various references)

Yucatec

ts'aakik (care for, cure, treat). (various references)

Zulu

-pholisa (care for, cure, heal, remedy, treat). (various references)

cautio, cautionem, cultu, cultui, cultum, cultura, culturae, culturam, cultus, cura, diligentia, diligentiam, diligentias, procuratio, tutela. (various references)

bisgu, cearo, heord, reccan. (various references)

diligence. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "care": cared, careen, careened, careener, careeners, careening, careens, career, careered, careerer, careerers, careering, careerism, careerisms, careerist, careerists, careers, carefree, careful, carefuller, carefullest, carefully, carefulness, carefulnesses, caregiver, caregivers, caregiving, caregivings, careless, carelessly, carelessness, carelessnesses, carer, carers, cares, caress, caressed, caresser, caressers, caresses, caressing, caressingly, caressive, caressively, caret, caretake, caretaken, caretaker, caretakers, caretakes, caretaking. (additional references)

Words ending with "care": aftercare, decare, medicare, ricercare, scare. (additional references)

Words containing "care": aftercares, calcareous, calcareously, decares, medicares, noncareer, overcareful, picaresque, picaresques, scarecrow, scarecrows, scared, scarehead, scareheads, scaremonger, scaremongers, scarer, scarers, scares, scarey, ultracareful. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Care" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acree, acrew, acri, acru, Caade, caae, caate, cace, caer, caern, Caex, cagr, cagree, caie, cair, caira, caire, caje, cajra, calee, Camrex, Capree, capro, cara, caraa, caraq, carb, Carc, carce, carde, carea, careb, caree, careem, Careg, carem, caren, careo, carer, carew, cari, carie, carj, carke, Carme, carn, carox, carq, Carra, carre, carrea, carree, carrem, Carri, carro, caru, carv, Carw, Carwen, Casre, caur, cawe, caxe, caye, caze, Cdre, Ceara, cee, cera, cerae, cere, Cerec, ceren, Cereq, ceri, Cerj, Cerrej, ceru, ceyrek, cfr, Charef, chre, Ciara, cier, cifra, cira, cire, Ciri, ciro, clarri, coree, coreu, corre, cra, crace, crae, Crai, craj, Crarae, crau, cre, crea, cref, creh, crev, crre, crye, csr, curee, curex, curre, cwr, cxr, iare, icar, karde, kare, karf, Karge, karu, Kjaer, krae, kuare, ocaer, Ucar, zare. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: acre, race.

-1 letter: ace, arc, are, car, ear, era, rec.

-2 letters: ae, ar, er, re.

+1 letter: acerb, acred, acres, arced, areca, areic, brace, caber, cadre, cager, caner, caper, cared, carer, cares, caret, carex, carle, carse, carte, carve, cater, caver, cedar, ceria, chare, clear, crake, crane, crape, crate, crave, craze, creak, cream, erica, escar, facer, farce, grace, lacer, macer, nacre, ocrea, pacer, raced, racer, races, rance, reach, react, recap, recta, scare, serac, trace.