GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Care (kâr), n. [AS. caru, cearu; akin to OS. kara sorrow, Goth. kara, OHG chara, lament, and perh. to Gr. γῆρυς 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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   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. 38.
   
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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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