Antonyms for Nurse
nɜrsnurse

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1. nurseverb

   to drink slowly

   Synonyms:
   sip

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1. nurse

   To cherish is both to hold dear and to treat as dear. Mere unexpressed esteem would not be cherishing. In the marriage vow, "to love, honor, and cherish," the word cherish implies all that each can do by love and tenderness for the welfare and happiness of the other, as by support, protection, care in sickness, comfort in sorrow, sympathy, and help of every kind. To nurse is to tend the helpless or feeble, as infants, or the sick or wounded. To nourish is strictly to sustain and build up by food; to nurture includes careful mental and spiritual training, with something of love and tenderness; to foster is simply to maintain and care for, to bring up; a foster-child will be nourished, but may not be as tenderly nurtured or as lovingly cherished as if one's own. In the figurative sense, the opinion one cherishes he holds, not with mere cold conviction, but with loving devotion.

   See synonyms for ABANDON; CHASTEN.

   Synonyms:
   cheer, cherish, cling to, comfort, encourage, entertain, foster, harbor, hold dear, nourish, nurture, protect, shelter, treasure, value

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1. • Care
   • Feel
   • Health Professional
   • Medicine
   • Treat

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1. nursenoun

   one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician)

   Synonyms:
   nursemaid, nanny

2. nanny, nursemaid, nurseverb

   a woman who is the custodian of children

   Synonyms:
   nursemaid, nanny, nanny-goat, she-goat, nurse

3. nurseverb

   try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury

   "He nursed his cold with Chinese herbs"

   Synonyms:
   breastfeed, wet-nurse, give suck, suckle, entertain, harbour, suck, lactate, hold, harbor

4. harbor, harbour, hold, entertain, nurseverb

   maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)

   "bear a grudge"; "entertain interesting notions"; "harbor a resentment"

   Synonyms:
   accommodate, book, retain, moderate, view as, support, apply, hold back, harbour, defend, take hold, bind, suck, deem, hold up, toy with, arrest, breastfeed, take, have, concord, think about, check, make, take for, go for, throw, defy, control, harbor, keep, suckle, obligate, carry, give, adjudge, entertain, nurse, oblige, curb, hold, lactate, confine, have got, restrain, wet-nurse, withstand, agree, hold in, flirt with, halt, contain, think of, concur, maintain, guard, shield, keep back, sustain, prevail, reserve, admit, obtain, declare, give suck, bear

5. nurseverb

   serve as a nurse; care for sick or handicapped people

   Synonyms:
   breastfeed, wet-nurse, give suck, suckle, entertain, harbour, suck, lactate, hold, harbor

6. nurseverb

   treat carefully

   "He nursed his injured back by lying in bed several hours every afternoon"; "He nursed the flowers in his garden and fertilized them regularly"

   Synonyms:
   breastfeed, wet-nurse, give suck, suckle, entertain, harbour, suck, lactate, hold, harbor

7. breastfeed, suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suckverb

   give suck to

   "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places"

   Synonyms:
   soak up, entertain, go down on, sop up, wet-nurse, fellate, hold, draw, give suck, absorb, suckle, take in, suck in, harbour, nurse, imbibe, lactate, blow, take up, suck up, harbor, breastfeed, suck

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1. nurseverb

   Synonyms:
   suckle, nourish, cherish, foster, succor, foment, encourage, attend, tend, bring up, raise, nurture, rear

How to use Nurse in a sentence?

1. White Christian:

   I think more than any other person that I’ve ever known, my mother exemplified what is best about this country, my mother was a registered nurse and … she treated African Americans exactly the same as she did White people and she was unique, perhaps among the 30,000 people that lived in our county, in doing that. I was filled with admiration for my mother.

2. Jennifer Waller:

   It was a shock because I can’t have cancer. I’m a nurse. I take care of people. I tell people you have cancer. I treat you. I can’t have cancer. Yet here I am, saying the words that make me so nauseas.

3. Vilma Rozen:

   It’s household management, it’s home health aide, it’s a nurse, it’s running around, it’s taxi driver, it’s all the stuff together, it’s [to] be the family, it’s [to] be everything.

4. Marlena Pellegrino:

   This is an enormous victory for our patients and our members, and it is a testament to the grit and determination of every nurse who walked that line, day in and day out.

5. Pascal Siakam:

   I think we've got to take care of the ball. Obviously, that’s the most important( thing in the fourth quarter), staying solid, continuing to follow the game plan on defense, and I think that’s all we can do. Obviously, we know what’s happening and we talk amongst each other and then Coach( Nick Nurse) puts an emphasis on it too, so we've got to go out there and execute it.

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