Nourish

['nʌrɪʃ] or ['nɜrɪʃ]

Definition

(verb.) provide with nourishment; 'We sustained ourselves on bread and water'; 'This kind of food is not nourishing for young children'.

Checked by Leroy--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.

(v. t.) To support; to maintain.

(v. t.) To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues.

(v. t.) To cherish; to comfort.

(v. t.) To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to promote the growth of in attainments.

(v. i.) To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.

(v. i.) To gain nourishment.

(n.) A nurse.

Checker: Raffles

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Nurture, nurse, feed, support, maintain, supply with food or nutriment, furnish sustenance to.[2]. Train, educate, instruct, breed, bring up.[3]. Cherish, encourage, foster, promote, succor.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Nurture, fed, foster, cherish, nurse, tend, support, promote

ANT:Starve_blight, destroy, kill, wither

Edited by Andrea

Definition

v.t. to suckle: to feed or bring up: to support: to help forward growth in any way: to encourage: to cherish: to educate.—adjs. Nour′ishable able to be nourished.—n. Nour′isher.—adj. Nour′ishing giving nourishment.—n. Nour′ishment the act of nourishing or the state of being nourished: that which nourishes: nutriment.

Edited by Babbage

Examples

Checker: Stella

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