cares (for)

verb

present tense third-person singular of care (for)
1
as in watches
to take charge of especially on behalf of another will you care for the lawn while we're gone?

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2
as in ministers (to)
to attend to the needs and comforts of he is caring for his mother while she's sick

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3
as in accepts
to have a favorable opinion of I don't really care for what you're doing with that dog

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4
as in wants
to wish to have I don't particularly care for rice cereal, but I'll eat it

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5
as in prefers
to show partiality toward she generally doesn't care for war movies

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cares (for)
  1. watches
  2. nurses
  3. accepts
  4. wants
  5. prefers
  6. supervises
  7. treats
  8. likes
Verb
  • As the wife’s memory fades, the film watches love, loneliness and strain settle into the family’s daily routines.
    — Ophélie Surcouf, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026
  • The earlier one watches people labor to keep a difficult tie functioning.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of watches
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  • At the family estate, Sybylla, who nurses inchoate hopes of becoming a writer, is to be remade into a suitable wife.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Ultimately, Etna’s closest bond is with the itinerant medic Hong who nurses his emaciated, shrapnel-scarred body.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of nurses
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  • Debounce delay is the time between when a key on a mechanical keyboard is pressed and when the keyboard accepts the keypress as an input.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Put another way, roughly two employees are weighing an exit for every one who accepts a job at a company.
    — Kristin Stoller, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of accepts
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  • First, if the president wants to have any hope of winning either the House of Representatives or the Senate, the war has to end soon.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2026
  • The team wants everything to be printable for mass production.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of wants
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  • Liebman, however, prefers a different approach — a focus on total return.
    — Cheryl Winokur Munk, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2026
  • But these four stood out, especially because they were caught on camera and quickly raced across social media, not the kind of viral moments the NFL prefers.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of prefers
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  • Frot-Coutaz also supervises Sky Studios Elstree, Sky’s state-of-the-art film and TV studio, plus Sky Studios’ global portfolio of production companies that includes Blast!
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Jim DeFrain, who supervises the investigation and the Metropolitan Explosive Disposal Unit, said initial testing indicated the presence of hydrogen sulfide, a toxic gas.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of supervises
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  • For much of the story, Xu Fu looks out for himself and treats the war as someone else’s problem.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
  • In a secluded bubble away from the city, Stephen Miller’s wife treats Washington’s most powerful to custom cakes, live donkeys, and sake-squirting hibachi chefs.
    — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of treats
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  • Sanabria likes to point out that no one currently sitting on the City Commission has endorsed him.
    — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Widow’s Bay co-stars Kate O’Flynn as Patricia Moyer, a social outcast who works as Tom’s assistant and is convinced no one likes her — in part because very few people do.
    — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of likes
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“Cares (for).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cares%20%28for%29. Accessed 11 Oct. 2026.

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