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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Hugh was transferred to Morriston Hospital in Swansea for the surgery before being kept in intensive care for six days.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
Prices for things like lawn care, pet care and laundry services have gone up more than usual due to a scarcity of labor and continued high demand.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
This jibes with the challenge hypothesis, which says, in multiple species, testosterone levels rise when males battle for attention from potential mates and go down when it’s time to take care of the young.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
Other prices to increase over the month included medical care, personal care, airline fares and recreation.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
Perhaps with time and care, a new garden could grow in the place of this dead one.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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