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care, solicitude, heed; heedfulness; scruple (conscientiousness)., watchfulness; vigilance, surveillance, eyes of Argus, watch, vigil, look out, watch and ward, loeil du maitre., alertness (activity); attention; prudence, circumspection (caution); anxiety; forethought; precaution (preparation); tidiness (order), (cleanliness) [more]; accuracy (exactness); minuteness, attention to detail.

be careful; reck; take care (be cautious); pay attention to; take care of; look to, look after, see to, see after; keep an eye on, keep a sharp eye on; chaperon, matronize, play gooseberry; keep watch, keep watch and ward; mount guard, set watch, watch; keep in sight, keep in view; mind, mind on'e business., look sharp, look about one; look with one's own eyes; keep a good lookout, keep a sharp lookout; have all one's wits about one, have all one's eyes about one; watch for (expect); keep one's eyes open, have the eyes open, sleep with one's eye open.

careful, regardful, heedful; taking care; particular; prudent (cautious); considerate; thoughtful (deliberative); provident (prepared); alert (active); sure-footed., guarded, on one's guard; on the qui vivre, on the alert, on watch, on the lookout; awake, broad awake, vigilant; watchful, wakeful, wistful; Argus-eyed; wide awake (intelligent); on the watch for (expectant)., tidy (orderly), (clean) [more]; accurate (exact); scrupulous (conscientious); cavendo tutus (safe).

carefully; with care, gingerly.

duty, what ought to be done, moral obligation, accountableness, liability, onus, responsibility; bounden duty, imperative duty; call, call of duty; accountability., allegiance, fealty, tie engagement (promise) [more]; part; function, calling (business)., morality, morals, decalogue; case of conscience; conscientiousness (probity); conscience, inward monitor, still small voice within, sense of duty, tender conscience; the hell within., dueness; propriety, fitness, seemliness, amenability, decorum; the thing, the proper thing; the right thing to do, the proper thing to do., [Science of morals] ethics, ethology.; deontology, aretology; moral philosophy, ethical philosophy; casuistry, polity., observance, fulfillment, discharge, performance, acquittal, satisfaction, redemption; good behavior.

be the duty of; be incumbent on, be responsible; behoove, become, befit, beseem; belong to, pertain to; fall to one's lot; devolve on; lie upon, lie on one's head, lie at one's door; rest with, rest on the shoulders of. take upon oneself (promise) [more]; be bound to, become bound to, be sponsor for, become sponsor for; incur a responsibility n.; be under an obligation, stand under an obligation, lie under an obligation; have to answer for, owe to it oneself., impose a duty; enjoin, require, exact; bind, bind over; saddle with, prescribe, assign, call upon, look to, oblige., enter upon a duty, perform a duty, observe a duty, fulfill a duty, discharge a duty, adhere to a duty, acquit oneself of a duty, satisfy a duty, enter upon an obligation, perform an obligation, observe an obligation, fulfill an obligation, discharge an obligation, adhere to an obligation, acquit oneself of an obligation, satisfy an obligation; act one's part, redeem one's pledge, do justice to, be at one's post; do duty; do one's duty (be virtuous) [more]., be on one's good behavior, mind one's P's and Q's.

obligatory, binding; imperative, peremptory; stringent (severe); behooving; incumbent on, chargeable on; under obligation; obliged by, bound by, tied by; saddled with., due to, beholden to, bound to, indebted to; tied down; compromised (promised); in duty bound., amenable, liable, accountable, responsible, answerable., right, meet (due); moral, ethical, casuistical, conscientious, ethological.

with a safe conscience, as in duty, bound, on one's own responsibility, at one's own risk, suo periculo; in foro conscientiae; quamdiu se bene gesserit.

guilt, guiltiness; culpability; criminality, criminousness; deviation from rectitude (improbity); sinfulness (vice)., misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed; malpractice, fault, sin, error, transgression; dereliction, delinquency; indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas, peccadillo; flaw, blot, omission; failing, failure; break, bad break [U.S.], capital crime, delictum., offense, trespass; misdemeanor, misfeasanee, misprision; malefaction, malfeasance, malversation; crime, felony., enormity, atrocity, outrage; deadly sin, mortal sin; "deed without a name" [Macbeth]., corpus delicti.

guilty, to blame, culpable, peccable, in fault, censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, illaudable; weighed in the balance and found wanting; exceptionable.

in flagrante delicto; red-handed, in the very act.

liability, liableness; possibility, contingency; susceptivity, susceptibility.

liable, subject; in danger; open to, exposed to, obnoxious to; answerable; unexempt from; apt to; dependent on; incident to., contingent, incidental, possible, on the cards, within range of, at the mercy of.