English > care for: 3 senses > verb 3, body| Meaning | Provide treatment for. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
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| Model | Did he care for his foot? |
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| Synonym | treat |
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| Entailed by | bring around, cure, heal | Provide a cure for, make healthy / healthy again |
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| Narrower | administer, dispense | Give or apply (medications) |
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| analyze, analyse, psychoanalyze, psychoanalyse | subject to psychoanalytic treatment |
| bleed, leech, phlebotomize, phlebotomise | Draw blood |
| cauterize, cauterise, burn | Burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent |
| correct | treat a defect |
| cup, transfuse | treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin |
| detox, detoxify | treat for alcohol or drug dependence |
| doctor | Give medical treatment to |
| dress | apply a bandage or medication to |
| hyperventilate | produce hyperventilation in |
| insufflate | treat by blowing a powder or vapor into a bodily cavity |
| iodize, iodise | treat with iodine so as to prevent infection |
| irrigate | Supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid / liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting |
| manipulate | treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed |
| massage | Give a massage to |
| medicate, medicine | treat medicinally, treat with medicine |
| nurse | try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury |
| operate on, operate | Perform surgery on |
| pack | treat the body or any part of it by wrapping / wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood |
| purge | excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body) |
| remedy, relieve | Provide relief for |
| shock | subject to electrical shocks |
| splint | support with a splint |
| vet | Provide (a person) with medical care |
| Spanish | cuidar, ocuparse, preocuparse, tratar, trata |
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| Catalan | cuidar, ocupar-se de, tenir cura de, tenir cura, tractar, tracta |
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