becare

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

becare (third-person singular simple present becares, present participle becaring, simple past and past participle becared)

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, [...]

• Bearce, cabree, cabrée

becare

1. First-person singular (yo) future subjunctive form of becar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) future subjunctive form of becar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) future subjunctive form of becar.