care
/kɛɚ/ verb B1- To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about). · She doesn’t care what you think.· I don’t care, I’m still going.
- To want, to desire; to like; to be inclined towards or interested in. · Would you care for another slice of cake?· Would you care to dance?
- To be affected by, to treat as relevant for a subsequent course of action.
- (with for) To look after or look out for. · Young children can learn to care for a pet.· He cared for his mother while she was sick.
- To mind; to object.
Plural care · He/she/it cares · Past cared · Past participle cared · -ing form caring
Verb forms
- Base form
- care
- He/she/it
- cares
- Past
- cared
- Past participle
- cared
- -ing form
- caring
From the library
“Well, I’ll eat it,” said Alice, “and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door; so either way I’ll get into the garden, and I don’t care which happens!”
“I don’t much care where—” said Alice.
It means much the same thing,” said the Duchess, digging her sharp little chin into Alice’s shoulder as she added, “and the moral of _that_ is—‘Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.’”
And then Anthony Rockwall, who never cared for bells, went to the door of his library and shouted “Mike!” in the same voice that had once chipped off pieces of the welkin on the Kansas prairies.
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