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English
Etymology
From Middle English bicaren. Equivalent to be- + care.
Verb
becare (third-person singular simple present becares, present participle becaring, simple past and past participle becared)
- (transitive) To care about; care for; provide or administer care to; take care of.
1968, Bruno Bettelheim, Love is not enough: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."
1971, Benjamin B. Wolman, Manual of child psychopathology:Some little patients in the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School, in comparing their counselors with their parents, stated that parents love, but counselors "becare."
2006, John E. Staller, Robert H. Tykot, Bruce F. Benz, Histories of Maize: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, [...]
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Verb
becare
- first/third-person singular future subjunctive of becar