[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

care \care\ k^ar, 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.
      1913 webster

            care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
            and where care lodges, sleep will never lie. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. charge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility
      for safety and prosperity.
      1913 webster

            the care of all the churches.         --2 cor. xi.
                                                  28.
      1913 webster

            him thy care must be to find.         --milton.
      1913 webster

            perplexed with a thousand cares.      --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. attention or heed; caution; regard; heedfulness;
      watchfulness; as, take care; have a care.
      1913 webster

            i thank thee for thy care and honest pains. --shak.
      1913 webster

   4. the object of watchful attention or anxiety.
      1913 webster

            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.
        1913 webster
see also:
chary care anxiety solicitude concern 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
   1913 webster

         i would not care a pin, if the other three were in.
                                                  --shak.
   1913 webster

         master, carest thou not that we perish?  --mark. iv.
                                                  38.
   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.
       1913 webster

             he cared not for the affection of the house.
                                                  --tennyson.
       1913 webster
see also:
cared caring care to care for 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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
see also:
attention aid tending caution precaution forethought 
concern fear charge tutelage guardianship 
maintenance upkeep give care wish like 
manage deal handle worry 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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

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