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soigner — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • care noun Serious attention or effort put into avoiding mistakes or harm.
  • cure noun A treatment or remedy that restores health or solves a problem.
  • nurse noun A person trained to care for the sick or injured, typically working under a doctor.
  • treat verb To behave toward someone or something in a particular way.

Senses

soigner is used for these senses in English:

  • care (intransitive) (with for) To look after or look out for.
  • care for (transitive, chiefly in the negative) To like or appreciate; to consider to be appealing, tasteful, or suitable.
  • cure (transitive) To restore to health.
  • look after (transitive, obsolete) To expect, look forward to. [14th–18th c.]
  • take care of (transitive) To look after, to care for.
  • treat (transitive) To handle, deal with or behave towards in a specific way. [from 14th c.]
  • treat (transitive) To care for medicinally or surgically; to apply medical care to. [from 18th c.]

care — full definition

  1. noun Serious attention or effort put into avoiding mistakes or harm.
  2. noun Worry or concern about something.
  3. noun The looking after of someone's health, safety, or wellbeing.
  4. verb To feel concern or interest about something.
  5. verb To look after someone or something (usually with "for").

cure — full definition

  1. noun A treatment or remedy that restores health or solves a problem.
  2. verb To restore someone to health, or to fix a problem completely.
  3. verb To preserve food, typically meat or fish, by salting, smoking, or drying.

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