Antonyms for take care


Grammar : Verb
Spell : kair
Phonetic Transcription : kɛər


Definition of take care

Origin :
  • Old English carian, cearian "be anxious, grieve; to feel concern or interest," from Proto-Germanic *karojanan (cf. Old High German charon "to lament," Old Saxon karon "to care, to sorrow"), from the same source as care (n.). OED emphasizes that it is in "no way related to L. cura." Related: Cared; caring.
  • To not care as a negative dismissal is attested from mid-13c. Phrase couldn't care less is from 1946; could care less in the same sense (with an understood negative) is from 1966. Care also figures in many "similies of indifference" in the form don't care a _____, with the blank filled by fig, pin, button, cent, straw, rush, point, farthing, snap, etc., etc.
  • Positive senses, e.g. "have an inclination" (1550s); "have fondness for" (1520s) seem to have developed later as mirrors to the earlier negative ones.
  • As in mind : verb be careful
  • As in baby-sit : verb care for a child
  • As in beware : verb be careful
Example sentences :
  • Will you take care of some money for me until I get a chance to deposit it in the savings bank?
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • I want you to take this money, and take care of it, while I am gone on my present voyage.
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • I had to take care of him, and the work on the grocery-house was necessarily stopped.
  • Extract from : « Biography of a Slave » by Charles Thompson
  • He will take care of him for you till you are ready to have him again.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • "Why, cert.," she said when I begged her last Wednesday to take care of Helen.
  • Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
  • About the first I've had for fifteen years; so, you see, I must take care of it.
  • Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
  • Would you like to take care of him, and wait upon him a little, for about two weeks?
  • Extract from : « Rico and Wiseli » by Johanna Spyri
  • Just finish that pass for me, and I will take care of the professor.
  • Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
  • I think you will be able to take care of yourself in a cold and callous world.
  • Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
  • Whenever one of these comes, bring it to me and I'll take care of it for you.
  • Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter

Synonyms for take care

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