becare

present singular third person becares · participle present becaring · participle past becared · past becared

1. transitiveTo care about; care for; provide or administer care to; take care of.

   Counselors becare you. They give you clothes and candy. Joan becares me, Marilyn loves me. My parents don't becare me, they're not counselors."

   1968, Bruno Bettelheim, Love is not enough

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   Some little patients in the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School, in comparing their counselors with their parents, stated that parents love, but counselors "becare."

   1971, Benjamin B. Wolman, Manual of child psychopathology

   As is well known, before mechanized agriculture, maize plants, like all New World crops, such as squash or beans, had to be individually hand-planted, becared, consciously selected, and harvested, with Old World type mass sowing, [...]

   2006, John E. Staller, Robert H. Tykot, Bruce F. Benz, Histories of Maize