care
Usage
What are other ways to say care?
Care suggests a heaviness of spirit caused by dread, or by the constant pressure of burdensome demands: Poverty weighs a person down with care. Concern implies an anxious sense of interest in something: concern over a friend's misfortune. Worry is an active state of agitated uneasiness and restless apprehension: He was distracted by worry over the stock market.Example Sentences
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“You’re taken care of,” the deputy chief later told Boyd, in one of 90 recorded conversations reviewed by the Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
Carl's football and the belt he always wore with his jeans will be entrusted to the care of Amgueddfa Cymru.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
“They arrested him and took everything we had. Our home. Our clothes,” the pastor said, adding that he was left to care for his minor siblings.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026
The director of the Lebanese Italian Hospital told the NNA that it would "remain open to provide the necessary medical care" despite the damage.
From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026
I didn’t care to be gawked at, nor did I like being ordered to parade myself around, but what was the point of saying so unless I was going to walk off the job?
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
