Becare

Origin

From Middle English bicaren, equivalent to - + care.

Full definition of becare

Verb

1. (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, ...----