taking care of

The phrase “taking care of” has 4 syllables: tak-ing care of

It's pronounced as /ˈteɪ.kɪŋ kɛr ʌv/


What is synonym and antonym for taking care of?

In the thesaurus, “taking care of” has 61 synonyms and 8 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for taking care of along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for taking care of

  • administrating
  • aiding
  • attending
  • babying
  • babysitting
  • chaperoning
  • coddling
  • conducting
  • conserving
  • controlling
  • curing
  • directing
  • doctoring
  • doing for
  • financing
  • funding
  • governing
  • guarding
  • guiding
  • healing
  • humoring
  • indulging
  • keeping
  • looking after
  • looking out for
  • looking to
  • maintaining
  • managing
  • minding
  • mollycoddling
  • mothering
  • nursing
  • operating
  • overseeing
  • pampering
  • patrolling
  • patronizing
  • preserving
  • protecting
  • regulating
  • remedying
  • running
  • safeguarding
  • seeing after
  • seeing to
  • setting up
  • shepherding
  • shielding
  • spoiling
  • sponsoring
  • staking
  • stewarding
  • superintending
  • supervising
  • supporting
  • tending
  • treating
  • underwriting
  • waiting on
  • waiting upon
  • watching

Antonyms for taking care of

Example Sentences

  • She's busy taking care of her elderly parents who live with her.
  • The nurse is responsible for taking care of patients in the intensive care unit.
  • I need to start taking care of my health by eating better and exercising regularly.
  • Taking care of household chores is part of our daily routine to maintain cleanliness.
  • The manager is responsible for taking care of customer complaints and ensuring satisfaction.

On this page you'll find 69 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to taking care of, such as: abandoning, administrating, aiding, attending, babying, babysitting, chaperoning.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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keeping

  • abidance
  • abiding by
  • accession
  • accomplishing
  • achieving
  • acquiescence
  • adherence
  • administering
  • administrating
  • agreement
  • answering
  • arresting
  • attendance
  • attention
  • authority
  • averting
  • balance
  • battling
  • bearing
  • blessing
  • blocking
  • boasting
  • bridling
  • bringing about
  • bringing off
  • buffering
  • bulwarking
  • care
  • carrying on
  • carrying out
  • celebrating
  • cellaring
  • charge
  • checking
  • cherishing
  • claiming
  • co-directing
  • co-managing
  • codirecting
  • collaring
  • comanaging
  • command
  • commandeering
  • commanding
  • commemorating
  • committing
  • compassing
  • completing
  • compliance
  • concluding
  • condition
  • conducting
  • confiscation
  • conformance
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  • consecrating
  • conserving
  • constraining
  • consummating
  • containing
  • contending
  • control
  • controlling
  • covering
  • curbing
  • custodianship
  • custody
  • defending
  • deference
  • detaining
  • directing
  • discharging
  • dominion
  • effecting
  • enjoying
  • enjoyment
  • estate
  • executing
  • fencing
  • fending
  • feting
  • fettle
  • fighting
  • filing
  • filling
  • finalizing
  • financing
  • finishing
  • footing
  • forfending
  • form
  • fulfilling
  • funding
  • gagging
  • garaging
  • governing
  • governorship
  • guardianship
  • guarding
  • guiding
  • hampering
  • handcuffing
  • handling
  • hands
  • hangaring
  • hanging on to
  • harboring
  • harmony
  • having
  • health
  • heed
  • hindering
  • holding
  • holding back
  • holding on to
  • honor
  • honoring
  • housing
  • hugging
  • impeding
  • inhibiting
  • interrupting
  • kilter
  • lauding
  • leading
  • maintaining
  • making
  • making good
  • making good on
  • management
  • managing
  • mastery
  • measuring
  • meeting
  • memorializing
  • micromanaging
  • mincing
  • minding
  • muffling
  • muzzling
  • nick
  • notice
  • obedience
  • observance
  • observation
  • observing
  • obstructing
  • operating
  • opposing
  • order
  • overlooking
  • overseeing
  • ownership
  • owning
  • packing
  • palisading
  • pass
  • patronizing
  • perfecting
  • performing
  • phase
  • picketing
  • picture
  • piloting
  • pocketing
  • possessing
  • possession
  • posture
  • power
  • practice
  • practise
  • praising
  • preservation
  • preserving
  • preventing
  • procurement
  • proprietorship
  • protecting
  • protection
  • pulling in
  • putting up
  • rank
  • redeeming
  • regard
  • regulating
  • remembering
  • repair
  • repositing
  • repossession
  • repressing
  • reserving
  • resisting
  • respect
  • restraining
  • retaining
  • retention
  • ruling
  • running
  • safeguarding
  • safekeeping
  • sanctifying
  • satisfying
  • saving
  • scene
  • screening
  • securing
  • setting up
  • shape
  • shelving
  • shielding
  • silencing
  • sinking
  • situation
  • smothering
  • solemnizing
  • sponsoring
  • squelching
  • stage
  • stage-managing
  • staking
  • standing
  • standing up for
  • status
  • steering
  • stewarding
  • stifling
  • stopping
  • storing
  • stowing
  • strangling
  • submission
  • superintendence
  • superintending
  • supervising
  • supervision
  • supporting
  • suppressing
  • surrender
  • swallowing
  • taking care of
  • taming
  • tending
  • treasuring
  • trim
  • trust
  • underwriting
  • uniformity
  • upholding
  • walling
  • ward
  • warding
  • warehousing
  • warring
  • watching
  • watching over
  • withholding
  • withstanding

waiting on

  • acute
  • agog
  • aiding
  • alert
  • anticipative
  • anxious
  • apprehensive
  • attending
  • attentive
  • awaiting
  • aware
  • babying
  • breathless
  • cautious
  • circumspect
  • coddling
  • conserving
  • curing
  • doctoring
  • doing for
  • eager
  • expecting
  • guarded
  • healing
  • hopeful
  • hoping
  • humoring
  • in suspense
  • indulging
  • keen
  • looking after
  • looking for
  • looking out for
  • looking to
  • mollycoddling
  • mothering
  • nursing
  • observant
  • on alert
  • on edge
  • on guard
  • on tenterhooks
  • on the ball
  • on the job
  • on the lookout
  • on the qui vive
  • on toes
  • open-eyed
  • pampering
  • prepared
  • preserving
  • raring
  • ready
  • remedying
  • seeing to
  • serving
  • sharp
  • sleepless
  • spoiling
  • supporting
  • taking care of
  • treating
  • unsleeping
  • vigilant
  • waiting
  • wakeful
  • wary
  • watchful
  • wide-awake
  • with bated breath
  • with eyes peeled
  • with weather eye open

waiting upon

  • aiding
  • attending
  • babying
  • coddling
  • conserving
  • curing
  • doctoring
  • doing for
  • healing
  • humoring
  • indulging
  • looking after
  • looking out for
  • looking to
  • mollycoddling
  • mothering
  • nursing
  • pampering
  • preserving
  • remedying
  • seeing to
  • serving
  • spoiling
  • supporting
  • taking care of
  • treating

maintaining

  • abiding
  • accomplishing
  • adducing
  • administering
  • advancement
  • advancing
  • advising
  • advocating
  • affirmation
  • affirming
  • allegation
  • alleging
  • announcing
  • arguing
  • asserting
  • assertion
  • asseveration
  • assiduity
  • assigned to
  • at work
  • augmenting
  • averring
  • avouching
  • avowal
  • avowing
  • belief
  • broadcasting
  • carrying-on
  • championing
  • charge
  • chronic
  • citing
  • claim
  • claiming
  • commanding
  • conducting
  • confirming
  • confuting
  • conserving
  • considering
  • contending
  • contestation
  • continuance
  • continuing
  • continuity
  • continuum
  • contriving
  • controlling
  • convincing
  • counseling
  • counselling
  • countering
  • covering
  • curing
  • debating
  • declaration
  • declaring
  • defending
  • demurrer
  • deposition
  • determining
  • directing
  • discussing
  • discussion
  • disproving
  • driving
  • durable
  • duration
  • emphasizing
  • endurance
  • enduring
  • enforcing
  • espousing
  • executing
  • explaining
  • explanation
  • extension
  • financing
  • finishing
  • fixing
  • fulfilling
  • funding
  • furtherance
  • giving
  • going on
  • ground
  • guarding
  • guiding
  • healing
  • holding
  • hurrah
  • husbanding
  • hypothesis
  • idea
  • increase
  • increasing
  • insisting
  • justifying
  • keeping
  • keeping up
  • lasting
  • line
  • living in
  • long-lasting
  • long-lived
  • long-standing
  • managing
  • manipulating
  • mending
  • mentioning
  • moving
  • obtaining
  • offering
  • old
  • opinion
  • ordering
  • owning
  • patching
  • patronizing
  • perdurable
  • perennial
  • performing
  • permanent
  • permeating
  • perpetuating
  • perpetuation
  • persevering
  • persistence
  • persistent
  • persisting
  • persuading
  • pervading
  • placed
  • plea
  • pleading
  • position
  • possessing
  • posted
  • postscript
  • practicing
  • predication
  • preservation
  • preserving
  • proclaiming
  • producing
  • production
  • professing
  • profession
  • progressing
  • prolongation
  • prolonging
  • propagation
  • proposing
  • protecting
  • protesting
  • protracting
  • protraction
  • purporting
  • pursuing
  • putting forth
  • rationalizing
  • reaffirming
  • reasoning
  • reasserting
  • rebuilding
  • rebutting
  • recommending
  • reconstructing
  • refuting
  • regulating
  • rehabilitating
  • rejuvenating
  • remaining
  • remedying
  • residing
  • resting
  • restoring
  • revolving
  • rumpus
  • running
  • safeguarding
  • saving
  • screening
  • sequel
  • servicing
  • serving
  • setting up
  • settled on
  • shielding
  • sitting
  • situated
  • spinning
  • sponsoring
  • staking
  • stand
  • standing up for
  • stating
  • staying
  • sticking up for
  • stressing
  • submitting
  • succession
  • suggesting
  • supervising
  • supplement
  • supporting
  • sustaining
  • sustenance
  • taking care of
  • taking up
  • tenacity
  • tenanting
  • thesis
  • transacting
  • turning
  • underlining
  • underscoring
  • underwriting
  • upholding
  • urging
  • using
  • view
  • vindicating
  • warranting
  • wielding

watching

  • administrating
  • alert
  • attending
  • babying
  • babysitting
  • beholding
  • bird-dogging
  • caring
  • cautious
  • chaperoning
  • conducting
  • considering
  • contemplating
  • controlling
  • covering
  • directing
  • espying
  • eyeing
  • eying
  • following
  • gaping
  • gawking
  • gazing
  • glancing
  • glaring
  • glimpsing
  • goggling
  • governing
  • guarding
  • guiding
  • hearing
  • heeding
  • keeping
  • keeping an eye on
  • looking
  • looking after
  • looking on
  • managing
  • marking
  • minding
  • monitoring
  • mothering
  • mulling
  • noticing
  • noting
  • obeying
  • observant
  • observing
  • operating
  • overseeing
  • patrolling
  • peeking
  • peeping
  • peering
  • perceiving
  • pondering
  • protecting
  • regarding
  • regulating
  • respecting
  • rubbernecking
  • running
  • safeguarding
  • seeing
  • seeing after
  • seeing to
  • shepherding
  • shielding
  • sighting
  • spying
  • staring
  • stewarding
  • studying
  • superintending
  • supervising
  • surveilling
  • taking care of
  • tending
  • viewing
  • waking
  • warding
  • wary
  • weighing
  • witnessing

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