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'.
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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.
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Examples
- It will prove her guilty, by showing that it is her habit to nourish enmity. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- All the stultification of the stand-pat mind may be described as inability, and perhaps unwillingness, to nourish a fruitful choice of issues. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Yet how could we nourish expectation of relief? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The man for whom she had pre-determined to nourish a passion went into the small room, and across it to the further extremity. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It did not nourish me: I pined on itand got as thin as a shadow: otherwise I was not ill. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- We must nourish her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Either it is blighted in the bud, or has got the smother-fly, or it isn't nourished. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She had rejected these advances; and the time for such exuberant submission, which must be founded on love and nourished by it, was now passed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- His features were peaky and sallow, and his little pointed beard was thready and ill-nourished. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I sit down by the fire, thinking with a blind remorse of all those secret feelings I have nourished since my marriage. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- A certain leanness falls upon houses not sufficiently imbued with life (as if they were nourished upon it), which was very noticeable here. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- We are being pinched by the acts it nourished. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She looks well-nourished, fair, and fat of flesh. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- These circumstances, added to the refreshment I had received by their victuals and drink, which were very nourishing, disposed me to sleep. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- No food can afford a more decisive proof of its nourishing quality, or of its being peculiarly suitable to the health of the human constitution. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A chief and highly nourishing object of food would doubtlessly be bones smashed up into a stiff and gritty paste. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The former feeling gradually gave way before the endearments of his ward, and the pride which he could not help nourishing in the fame of his son. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Plato said that Aristotle reacted against his instructo r as a vigorous colt kicks the mother that nourishes it. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Light stimulates, nourishes, preserves. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Everything nourishes what is strong already. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
Checker: Stella