care for sb
— phrasal verb with care uk/keər/us/ker/verb [ I ]
(PROTECT/PROVIDE FOR)
B1 to protect someone or something and provide the things they need, especially someone who is young, old, or ill:
The children are being cared for by a relative.
She can't go out to work because she has to stay at home to care for her elderly mother.
It's good to know that the dogs will be well cared for while we're away.
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- Most people would prefer to be cared for at home rather than in a hospital.
- They cared for their disabled son for 27 years, at great personal sacrifice.
- While some patients can be adequately cared for at home, others are best served by care in a hospital.
- Caring for young children can be exhausting.
- He spent many years caring for his senile mother.
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Medical treatment: treating & caring for people
- attention
- bedside manner
- bring
- care
- clinic
- domiciliary
- eye
- first-line treatment
- keep your/an eye on sth/sb idiom
- mind
- minister
- minister to sb
- modality
- nurse
- patch sb/sth up
- referral
- section
- set sb up
- soothe
- tend
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(LIKE)
formal to love someone and feel romantic towards them:
You know I care for you, Peter.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Loving and in love
- absence
- absence makes the heart grow fonder idiom
- adoring
- affection
- apple
- carry
- dear
- fondly
- have (got) it bad idiom
- head over heels (in love) idiom
- infatuated
- infatuation
- lose
- puppy love
- romance
- romantic
- serious
- smitten
- stuck
- sweep sb off their feet idiom
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