0 past simple and past participle of care --
1 to think that something is important and to feel interested in it or upset about it: --
He said he didn't approve of what I'd done, as if I cared.
You can go to the match with Paula, for all I care.
"Mike's really fed up about it." "I couldn't care less."
Your parents are only doing this because they care about (= love) you.
"Was Lorna happy about the arrangements?" "I don't know and I don't care."
[ + question word ] I really don't care whether we go out or not.
She's never cared very much about her appearance.
2 used in polite offers and suggestions: --
[ + to infinitive ] Would you care to join us for dinner?
Would you care for a drink?
If the plot was not large enough, however, only the eldest married son stayed in the house and cared for his parents.
The environmental investigation revealed that animal science students routinely cared for animals in their street clothes and shoes.
You know that they will live there until they die and be cared for in their old age.
Instead, his interviewees cared a lot more about divine healing.
Equally, carers felt insufciently cared for themselves, particularly in terms of emotional support.
It asserted that there is no difference in the rights of a patient cared for at home.
Rather than keep her profits, however, she donated them all to the hospice that had cared for her beloved husband.
Probably not one in twenty of the crowd that stood there jostling in the hot sunshine knew or cared what was taking place.
