Nourishing
['nʌrɪʃɪŋ] or ['nɝrɪʃɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nourish
(a.) Promoting growth; nutritious,
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Nutrition.
a. Nutritious, nutritive, strengthening, invigorating, healthful, wholesome.
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Examples
- 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.
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