take care of

English

Verb

take care of

1. (transitive) To look after, to provide care for.

   My elderly mother needs to be taken care of.

2. (transitive) To deal with, handle.

   Can somebody take care of the customers while I clean this mess?

3. (transitive, slang, euphemistic) To kill.

   In the motion picture The Godfather gangster Virgil Sollozzo took care of Luca Brasi by having him strangled.

Synonyms

• (look after): care for, nurse
• (handle): attend to
• (kill (slang)): bump off, knock off, wax

Translations

look after

• Dutch: zorgen voor (nl)
• Esperanto: flegi (eo) (nurse)
• French: soigner (fr), prendre soin de (fr)
• Galician: coidar (gl)
• German: sich kümmern um (de)
• Italian: badare (it)
• Latin: curo (la)
• Romanian: a avea grijă de (eg. ai grijă de tine)

• Russian: заботиться (zabótit's'a) impf., позаботиться (pozabótit's'a) pf.; присматривать (prismátrivat') impf., присмотреть (prismotr'ét') pf.
• Serbo-Croatian: brinuti se za (sh)
• Spanish: cuidar de
• Swedish: ta hand om (sv)

deal with

• French: s'occuper de (fr)
• German: sich kümmern um (de)
• Italian: ci penso io (it)
• Jèrriais: souongni dé
• Russian: заниматься (zanimát's'a) impf., заняться (zan'át's'a) pf.

• Serbo-Croatian: pobrinuti se za (sh)
• Spanish: ocuparse (es) de, encargarse (es) de, cuidar (es) de, tener a su cuidado
• Swedish: ta itu med (sv)

kill

• Latin: occido (la), macto (la), caedo (la), neco (la)
• Russian: разбираться (razbirát's'a) impf., разобраться (razobrát's'a) impf.

• Spanish: encargarse (es) de