foster vs neglect

foster

noun
  • A foster parent. 

  • The care given to another; guardianship. 

adj
  • Related by such care. 

  • Receiving such care. 

  • Providing parental care to children not related to oneself. 

verb
  • To cultivate and grow something. 

  • To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child. 

  • To nurse or cherish something. 

neglect

verb
  • To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness. 

  • To fail to care for or attend to something. 

  • To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight. 

  • To ignore for the sake of simplifying calculations without significantly affecting accuracy. 

noun
  • Habitual lack of care. 

  • The act of neglecting. 

  • The state of being neglected. 

How often have the words foster and neglect occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )