care for

care for
    v 1: have a liking, fondness, or taste (for)
    2: be fond of; be attached to [syn: {care for}, {cherish}, {hold
       dear}, {treasure}]
    3: provide treatment for; "The doctor treated my broken leg";
       "The nurses cared for the bomb victims"; "The patient must be
       treated right away or she will die"; "Treat the infection
       with antibiotics" [syn: {treat}, {care for}]
    

100 Moby Thesaurus words for "care for":
      administer to, attend, attend on, attend to, baby-sit, bandage,
      bathe, be fond of, be partial to, burn with love, chaperon,
      cherish, chore, coddle, conserve, contend with, cope with, cosset,
      cradle, cultivate, cure, dance attendance upon, deal with,
      diagnose, do for, do service to, do with, doctor, dote on,
      dote upon, drudge, dry-nurse, fancy, feed, flux, fondle, foster,
      give care to, go for, handle, have eyes for, have it bad, heal,
      help, keep watch over, lackey, lavish care on, like, look after,
      look out for, look to, love, maid, manage, massage, matronize,
      mind, minister to, mother, nourish, nurse, nurture, operate on,
      pamper, pander to, physic, plaster, poultice, preserve, protege,
      provide for, purge, remedy, ride herd on, rub, see after, see to,
      serve, shepherd, splint, spoon-feed, steward, strap, suckle,
      support, sustain, take care of, take charge of, tend, treat, upon,
      use, valet, wait, wait on, watch, watch out for, watch over,
      wet-nurse, work for