Providing care or service for someone/something. [weak verb]; (transitive, medicine) to nurse; to care for someone in poor health / Providing care or service for someone/something. [weak verb]; (transitive) to take care of, to tend to, to maintain / Providing care or service for someone/something. [weak verb]; (transitive) to take care of, to tend to, to maintain; (intransitive, archaic, with genitive) / To improve or care for something in an intellectual sense. [weak or strong verb] / To improve or care for something in an intellectual sense. [weak or strong verb]; (transitive) to cultivate; to foster; to nurture; to maintain / To improve or care for something in an intellectual sense. [weak or strong verb]; (transitive) to cultivate; to foster; to nurture; to maintain; (intransitive, higher register or poetic, with genitive) / Expressing habituality. [weak or strong verb]; (transitive) to carry out regularly

gerund of pflegen

to care for deeply / to maintain well

present participle of pflegen