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cuidar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • attend verb To be present at an event, class, or place.
  • care noun Serious attention or effort put into avoiding mistakes or harm.
  • cherish verb To care for someone or something deeply and protect it tenderly.
  • foster verb To raise or care for a child who is not biologically one's own.
  • mind noun The part of a person responsible for thought, awareness, memory, and reasoning.

Senses

cuidar is used for these senses in English:

  • attend (transitive, obsolete) To give consideration to (someone or something); to heed, to pay attention, to regard.
  • care (intransitive) (with for) To look after or look out for.
  • cherish To treat with affection, care, and tenderness; to nurture or protect with care.
  • foster (transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
  • foster (transitive) To nurse or cherish something.
  • look after (transitive, obsolete) To expect, look forward to. [14th–18th c.]
  • mind (chiefly, in the imperative) To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that). [from 17th c.]
  • mind To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time. [from 17th c.]

attend — full definition

  1. verb To be present at an event, class, or place.
  2. verb To take care of or deal with someone or something.
  3. verb To pay attention to or listen carefully to something.

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").

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