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Synonyms for care
Synonyms for care: attention, maintenance, caution and worry. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 4 synonyms for care
Interchangeable with care, one per sense
Audited under care's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one care carries in that sense.
- attentionnoun, in the sense "the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something"
- maintenancenoun, in the sense "activity involved in maintaining something in good working order"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name care as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
The first group is filed under care's own senses. The second reach care from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.
the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
No medical care was required.
The true synonym
attention
Same sentence, swapped: No medical attention was required.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for care in the sentence quoted.
- fear
- charge
- job
activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
He wrote the manual on car care.
The true synonym
maintenance
Same sentence, swapped: He wrote the manual on car maintenance.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where care stands in the sentence above.
- attention
- fear
- reconstruction
Where care turns up in the game
care is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play care
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so care reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. care carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.