Thesaurus / care for
FEEDBACK- admire
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How to use care for in a sentence
I do not care very much how you censor or select the reading and talking and thinking of the schoolboy or schoolgirl.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLSAnd this summer it seemed to her that she never would be able to take proper care of her nestful of children.
THE TALE OF GRANDFATHER MOLEARTHUR SCOTT BAILEYPolavieja, as everybody knew, was the chosen executive of the friars, whose only care was to secure their own position.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMANOn this account, great care should be taken to provide well-drained positions.
HOW TO KNOW THE FERNSS. LEONARD BASTINYou never cared—you were too proud to care; and when I spoke to you about my fault, you did n't even know what I meant.
CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMESHe really seems to care almost nothing for his piano-playing or for his piano compositions.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYBernard was uncomfortable enough not to care to be mocked; but he felt even more sorry that Gordon should be.
CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMESHe shall give his mind to turn up furrows, and his care is to give the kine fodder.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSHe used to walk through the park, and note with pleasure the care that his father bestowed on the gigantic property.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSBesides these, twenty thousand Indians are under the care of secular priests—making a total of two hundred and five thousand.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, 1493-1898, VOLUME XX, 1621-1624VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO CARE FOR
- admire
- adore
- appreciate
- care for
- clasp
- cleave to
- cling to
- coddle
- comfort
- cosset
- cultivate
- defend
- dote on
- embrace
- encourage
- enshrine
- entertain
- fancy
- fondle
- foster
- guard
- harbor
- hold dear
- hold in high esteem
- honor
- hug
- idolize
- like
- love
- nourish
- nurse
- nurture
- pet
- preserve
- prize
- revere
- reverence
- safeguard
- shelter
- shield
- support
- sustain
- treasure
- value
- venerate
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- mine
- nourish
- oppose
- panoply
- preserve
- prevent
- provide sanctuary
- repel danger
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- retain
- safeguard
- save
- screen
- secure
- shelter
- shield
- stave off
- sustain
- take in
- uphold
- war
- ward off
- watch
- watch over
- withstand
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.