"care for" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cares for",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caring for",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cared for",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cared for",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "care for (third-person singular simple present cares for, present participle caring for, simple past and past participle cared for)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "74 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "74 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"for\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "72 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "80 20",
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I cared for my ailing mother for five years.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1950 January, “Notes and News: George Bradshaw's Grave”, in Railway Magazine, page 62:",
          "text": "The grave is still cared for by the local authorities, and the monument is in an excellent state of preservation.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To attend to the needs of, especially in the manner of a nurse or personal aide."
      ],
      "id": "en-care_for-en-verb-fTIIklfX",
      "links": [
        [
          "attend",
          "attend"
        ],
        [
          "nurse",
          "nurse"
        ],
        [
          "aide",
          "aide"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To attend to the needs of, especially in the manner of a nurse or personal aide."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "look after"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "75 25",
          "sense": "to see to",
          "word": "besee"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1719 December 14, “To Dr. Sheridan”, in W. E. Browning, editor, The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. 2, Jonathan Swift:",
          "text": "Mrs. Dingley and Mrs. Johnson say, truly they don't care for your wife's company, though they like your wine.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, Virginia Woolf, chapter 5, in Night and Day:",
          "text": "\"Do you really care for this kind of thing?\" he asked at length.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 April 17, Unmesh Kher, “Whale On the Plate”, in Time:",
          "text": "Still, while most Japanese may not care for the meat, many object to calls to stop whaling.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To like or appreciate; to consider to be appealing, tasteful, or suitable."
      ],
      "id": "en-care_for-en-verb-9C6ttP7Z",
      "links": [
        [
          "like",
          "like"
        ],
        [
          "appreciate",
          "appreciate"
        ],
        [
          "appealing",
          "appealing"
        ],
        [
          "tasteful",
          "tasteful"
        ],
        [
          "suitable",
          "suitable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To like or appreciate; to consider to be appealing, tasteful, or suitable."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "sense": "to like or appreciate",
          "word": "think much of"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "care for"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"for\"",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cares for",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caring for",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cared for",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cared for",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "care for (third-person singular simple present cares for, present participle caring for, simple past and past participle cared for)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I cared for my ailing mother for five years.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1950 January, “Notes and News: George Bradshaw's Grave”, in Railway Magazine, page 62:",
          "text": "The grave is still cared for by the local authorities, and the monument is in an excellent state of preservation.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To attend to the needs of, especially in the manner of a nurse or personal aide."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "attend",
          "attend"
        ],
        [
          "nurse",
          "nurse"
        ],
        [
          "aide",
          "aide"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To attend to the needs of, especially in the manner of a nurse or personal aide."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "look after"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1719 December 14, “To Dr. Sheridan”, in W. E. Browning, editor, The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. 2, Jonathan Swift:",
          "text": "Mrs. Dingley and Mrs. Johnson say, truly they don't care for your wife's company, though they like your wine.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, Virginia Woolf, chapter 5, in Night and Day:",
          "text": "\"Do you really care for this kind of thing?\" he asked at length.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 April 17, Unmesh Kher, “Whale On the Plate”, in Time:",
          "text": "Still, while most Japanese may not care for the meat, many object to calls to stop whaling.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To like or appreciate; to consider to be appealing, tasteful, or suitable."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "like",
          "like"
        ],
        [
          "appreciate",
          "appreciate"
        ],
        [
          "appealing",
          "appealing"
        ],
        [
          "tasteful",
          "tasteful"
        ],
        [
          "suitable",
          "suitable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To like or appreciate; to consider to be appealing, tasteful, or suitable."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "to like or appreciate",
      "word": "think much of"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to see to",
      "word": "besee"
    }
  ],
  "word": "care for"
}