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| Main Entry: |
bring up
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | raise youngster |
| Synonyms: | breed, cultivate, develop, discipline, educate, feed, form, foster, nourish, nurture, provide for, rear, school, support, teach, train |
| Main Entry: | consider |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | turn over in one's mind |
| Synonyms: | acknowledge, allow for, assent to, chew over, cogitate, concede, consult, contemplate, deal with, deliberate, dream of, envisage, examine, excogitate, favor, flirt with, grant, inspect, keep in mind, look at, meditate, mull over, muse, perpend, ponder, provide for, reason, reckon with, recognize, reflect, regard, revolve, ruminate, scan, scrutinize, see, see about, speculate, study, subscribe to, take into account, take under advisement, take up, think out, think over, toss around |
| Antonyms: | discard, dismiss, forget, ignore, neglect, reject |
| Main Entry: | cover |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | include, contain |
| Synonyms: | be enough, comprehend, comprise, consider, deal with, embody, embrace, encompass, examine, incorporate, involve, meet, provide for, reach, refer to, suffice, survey, take account of |
| Antonyms: | exclude |
| Main Entry: | do for |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | help |
| Synonyms: | abet, aid, assist, benefact, care for, help out, lend a hand, look after, provide for, steady, support |
| Antonyms: | deny, refuse |
| Main Entry: | embrace |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | include in one's beliefs; take into account |
| Synonyms: | accept, accommodate, admit, adopt, avail oneself of, comprehend, comprise, contain, cover, deal with*, embody, enclose, encompass, espouse, get into, go in for, grab, have, incorporate, involve, make use of, provide for, receive, seize, subsume, take advantage of, take in, take on, take up, welcome |
| Antonyms: | disbelieve, distrust, exclude, reject, shun |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fend for |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take care of |
| Synonyms: | eke out existence, look after, make do, make provision for, provide for, stay alive, subsist, support, survive, sustain |
| Antonyms: | ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | sustain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | keep up, maintain |
| Synonyms: | aid, approve, assist, back, bankroll, bear, befriend, bolster, brace, buoy, buttress, carry, comfort, confirm, continue, convey, defend, endorse, favor, feed, foster, go for, help, keep alive, keep from falling, keep going, lend a hand, lug, nourish, nurse, nurture, pack, preserve, prolong, prop, protract, provide for, ratify, relieve, save, shore up, stand by, stick up for, supply, support, tote, transfer, transport, uphold, validate, verify |
| Antonyms: | discontinue, halt, stop |
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| Main Entry: | cover |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
antipudic, apatetic, armor, conchiferous, conchitic, conchological, cortical, covered, covering, cutaneous, cuticular, cyanotic, decorticated, deric, dermal, desquamate, doughfaced, echinulate, enameled, encrusted, encuirassed, flue, furfuraceous, galericulate, imbricate, imbricated, incanous, ironclad, lanuginous, lepidote, lined, loricated, lutose, overlaid, pastose, plumulaceous, procryptic, rorulent, scaled, scaly, scurfy, skinny, squamaceous, squamate, squamous, stegocephalic, stimulose, strigillose, stupulose, superincumbent, superjacent, tegumentary, tomentose, under cover
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| Concept: | Care. [Vigilance.] |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
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.
-verbs
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.
-adjectives
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).
-adverbs
carefully; with care, gingerly.
-phrases
quis custodiet istos custodes? "care will kill a cat" [Wither]; ni bebas aqua que no veas; "O polished perturbation! Golden care!" [Henry IV]; "the
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| Antonyms: | neglect |
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