different between becarve vs becare

English

Etymology

From Middle English bekerven, bikeorven, from Old English be?eorfan (“to becarve, cut off, separate, cut or pare away, deprive a person of something by cutting, amputate, behead”), equivalent to be- +? carve. Cognate with Old Frisian bikerva (“to amputate”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)v

Verb

becarve (third-person singular simple present becarves, present participle becarving, simple past becarved or (archaic) becorve, past participle becarved or (archaic) becorven)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To cut off.
2. (transitive, obsolete, land) To cut up; cut open; open up.
3. (transitive) To cut; carve or cut up; cut in pieces; carve.

Anagrams

• becrave

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)

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, [...]

Anagrams

• Bearce, cabree, cabrée

Spanish

Verb

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.