Care \Care\ (k[^a]r), n. [AS. caru, cearu; akin to OS.
         kara
   sorrow, Goth. kara, OHG chara, lament, and perh. to
         Gr.
   gh^rys voice. Not akin to cure. Cf. Chary.]
   1. A burdensome
         sense of responsibility; trouble caused by
      onerous
         duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.
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            Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
            And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. --Shak.
   
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   2. Charge, oversight, or management,
         implying responsibility
      for safety and prosperity.
 
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            The care of all the churches.         --2 Cor. xi.
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            Him thy care must be to find.         --Milton.
     
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            Perplexed with a thousand cares.      --Shak.
     
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   3. Attention or heed; caution; regard;
         heedfulness;
      watchfulness; as, take care; have a
         care.
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            I thank thee for thy care and honest pains. --Shak.
    
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   4. The object of watchful attention or
         anxiety.
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            Right sorrowfully mourning her bereaved cares.
                                                  --Spenser.

  
         Syn: Anxiety; solicitude; concern; caution; regard;
       
         management; direction; oversight. -- Care, Anxiety,
   
             Solicitude,
         Concern. These words
         express mental
         pain
        in different degress. Care belongs primarily
         to the
        intellect, and becomes painful from
         overburdened
        thought. Anxiety denotes a state of
         distressing
        uneasiness fron the dread of evil.
         Solicitude expresses
        the same feeling in a
         diminished degree. Concern is
        opposed to
         indifference, and implies exercise of anxious
       
         thought more or less intense. We are careful about the
    
            means, solicitous and anxious about the end; we are
    
            solicitous to obtain a good, anxious to avoid an evil.
 
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