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becare en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English bicaren. Equivalent to be- + care.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To care about; care for; provide or administer care to; take care of.
   • Some little patients in the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School, in comparing their counselors with their parents, stated that parents love, but counselors "becare." 1971, Benjamin B. Wolman, Manual of child psychopathology:
   • As is well known, before mechanized agriculture, maize plants, like all New World crops, such as squash or beans, had to be individually hand-planted, becared, consciously selected, and harvested, with Old World type mass sowing, [...] 2006, John E. Staller, Robert H. Tykot, Bruce F. Benz, Histories of Maize:
   • Counselors becare you. They give you clothes and candy. Joan becares me, Marilyn loves me. My parents don't becare me, they're not counselors." 1968, Bruno Bettelheim, Love is not enough:

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