Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

becare

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: be-care
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To care about; care for; provide or administer care to; take care of.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

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

Etymology

From Middle English bicaren. Equivalent to be- + care.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Prefix: be
Root: *ǵeh₂r-, bicaren

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

becares (present, singular) becaring (participle, present) becared (participle, past) becared (past)

Questions

What does becare mean?: To care about; care for; provide or administer care to; take care of.
Where does becare come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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