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caregive

caregive verb: to provide care, especially in the role as a caregiver.

Verb

caregive (third-person singular simple present caregives, present participle caregiving, simple past caregave, past participle caregiven)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To provide care, especially in the role as a caregiver.
    • This is what she wanted to share with other readers about that: I realized how many times it interfered with the way I caregave at certain times. I ended up resenting my task at hand.2008, Sheryl Karas, The Spiritual Journey of Family Caregiving, page 210
    • Encouraging men to caregive in their own way is a win-win for all.2010, Barbara Dunn, Linda Scott, Our Turn to Parent

Examples of caregive in a sentence

  • Using data from the Survey of Ageing and Independence conducted in 1991, McDonald (1996) found that retiring to caregive decreased the age of retirement for women by almost six years.2011, Frank Denton, Deborah Fretz, Byron Spencer, Independence and Economic Security in Old Age, page 277:
  • If you have decided to caregive, ask yourself these tough questions: “Why did I choose to caregive?2016, Jolene Brackey, Creating Moments of Joy Along the Alzheimer's Journey:

Forms of caregive

third-person singular presentcaregives
present participlecaregiving
pastcaregave
past participlecaregiven

Origin of caregive

Back-formation from caregiver.

Questions about caregive

What does caregive mean?
Caregive means to provide care, especially in the role as a caregiver.
How do you use caregive in a sentence?
Using data from the Survey of Ageing and Independence conducted in 1991, McDonald (1996) found that retiring to caregive decreased the age of retirement for women by almost six years.
What part of speech is caregive?
Caregive is a verb.
What is the past tense of caregive?
The past tense of caregive is caregave.

Words near caregive in the dictionary

  1. carefullier
  2. carefully
  3. carefulness
  4. carefulnesses
  5. caregave
  6. caregive
  7. caregiven
  8. caregiver
  9. caregiver register
  10. caregivers
  11. caregives

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Adapted from Wiktionary: caregive (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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