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Synonyms for take care of

  • verb

Most common

care for nurse look after maintain oversee superintend

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Care for — to look after, to care for

care for, nurse

2. Bump off — to kill

do, do in, bump off, rub out, grease, wax

3. Look after

look after, tend, do for, look to, see to it, deal with, attend to

Other

maintain, oversee, superintend

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To look after, to care for.

    My elderly mother needs to be taken care of.

  2. v. 2

    To kill.

    In the motion picture ‘The Godfather’, gangster Virgil Sollozzo took care of Luca Brasi by having him strangled.

  3. v. 3

    To deal with, handle.

    Can somebody take care of the customers while I clean this mess?

Example sentences

  • nurse The nurse took his temperature with a thermometer.
  • maintain Algeria is determined to maintain its sovereignty.
  • oversee Maternity nurses, midwives and doctors oversee the birth.

By length

2 letters
do1
3 letters
wax1
4 letters
tend1
5 letters
nurse1
6 letters
grease1
7 letters
oversee3
8 letters
maintain2
11 letters
superintend

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (oversee3 = 3 syllables).

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