What are some opposite words for nurse?
Antonyms for nurse
nɜrsnurse
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nurseverb
to drink slowly
Synonyms:
sip
English Synonyms and Antonyms
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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Princeton's WordNet
nursenoun
one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician)
nanny, nursemaid, nurseverb
a woman who is the custodian of children
Synonyms:
nursemaid, nanny, nanny-goat, she-goatnurseverb
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, harborharbor, 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, 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, bearnurseverb
serve as a nurse; care for sick or handicapped people
Synonyms:
breastfeed, wet-nurse, give suck, suckle, entertain, harbour, suck, lactate, hold, harbornurseverb
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, harborbreastfeed, 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, imbibe, lactate, blow, take up, suck up, harbor, breastfeed, suck
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How to use nurse in a sentence?
Covid-19 had her in prison for months, the nurse in the home said she was horribly depressed and we needed to get her out. We couldn't see her so we had no idea how she really was. She's extremely hard of hearing so phone calls were not helpful.
The fact that our traditional methodologies were developed for people with White skin meant that these nurse practitioners could not detect reported abuse accurately, there is a better methodology out there for women with dark skin pigmentation and we need to distribute it throughout the country so that there’s no excuse to not use the right equipment for the right women.
Anyway they thought I was a human trafficker trying to smuggle out a baby, so they called in customs, the police a doctor a nurse (to check the baby me to see if I actually gave birth), and the airline higher ups. I was bombarded with questions (naturally) but finally I proved that I wasn’t a trafficker. During this I called the @USEmbassyTurkey.
I’m a trauma nurse, sorry. I’m just shooken up. This is some of the craziest sh** I’ve seen.
No cop, no firefighter, no nurse, nobody should be losing their jobs because of these jobs, we have got to stand up for people and protect their jobs and protect their livelihoods.
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