Definitions for cares

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Spelling: [kair]

IPA: /kɛər/

Cares is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in cares (acers).

Definitions for cares

noun

1. a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern:
2. a cause or object of worry, anxiety, concern, etc.:
3. serious attention; solicitude; heed; caution:
4. the provision of what is needed for the well-being or protection of a person or thing:
5. temporary keeping, as for the benefit of or until claimed by the owner:
6. grief; suffering; sorrow.
7. a private organization for the collection of funds, goods, etc., for distribution to the needy in foreign countries.

Idioms

1. couldn't care less, could not care less; be completely unconcerned: Also, could care less.
2. take care, be alert; be careful: take care of yourself; goodbye: used as an expression of parting.
3. take care of, to watch over; be responsible for: to act on; deal with; attend to:

verb (used with object)

1. to feel concern about:
2. to wish; desire; like:

verb (used without object)

1. to be concerned or solicitous; have thought or regard.
2. to be concerned or have a special preference (usually used in negative constructions):
3. to make provision or look out (usually followed by for):
4. to have an inclination, liking, fondness, or affection (usually followed by for):

Origin of cares

before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English caru, cearu, cognate with Gothic kara, Old High German chara “lament”

Examples for cares

Do not be over-anxious, therefore, about to-morrow, for to-morrow will bring its own cares.

The Bible explicitly and repeatedly calls for the construction of a system that protects and cares for these groups.

No one cares whether one of those names is going to be Mrs. Mellark or Mrs. Hawthorne.

I don't imagine there's a single one that cares a bone button for me.

Bernard cares not to eat, but delights only in the taste of fresh water.

Such care will be death to one's own cares, such help balm to one's own wounds.

Who cares of Barack Hussein Obama is president and gays are getting married?

By day, she cares for her children in a bombed-out milk factory that hosts her orphanage, Okutiuka.

The NFL cares about only one thing: protecting the 32 franchise owners.

But it is a very unimaginative nature that only cares for people on their pedestals.