Synonyms 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. 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

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, 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, imbibe, lactate, blow, take up, suck up, harbor, breastfeed, suck

Matched Categories

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

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1. nurseverb

   Synonyms:
   nourish, nurture, supply with nourishment

2. nurseverb

   Synonyms:
   suckle, feed at the breast, give suck to

3. nurseverb

   Synonyms:
   cherish, foster, encourage, succor, promote

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1. nurseverb

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "nurse":

   nurses, nursing, corpsman, medic, nanny, matron, breastfeed, infirmary

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How to use nurse in a sentence?

1. Cliodna McNulty:

   Trust Lauri Hicks GP or nurse to prescribe antibiotics when Lauri Hicks need them. Do ask them to share information with Lauri Hicks about how Lauri Hicks can self-care, how long the symptoms should last and when Lauri Hicks should return( if symptoms are not improving or Lauri Hicks are feeling worse).

2. Matt Allen:

   As a labor and delivery nurse who helps mothers to bring babies into this world, I find it outrageous that Mount Sinai would compromise care for our NICU babies in any way. We already have NICU nurses caring for twice as many sick babies as they should, it’s unconscionable that Mount Sinai refuses to address unsafe staffing in our NICU and other units of the hospital but is now stirring fears about our NICU babies in contract negotiations.

3. Michael Landrio:

   I closed my car door and locked it but he was still trying to get in at me when a nurse and an off-duty cop escorted him away, i didn’t know who he was — I was just trying to defend myself. He was physically trying to harm me.

4. Johnny Wowk:

   Not one doctor, nurse, dietitian, or nutritionist has ever told me to eat and drink organic and I have out walked them all. The proof is in the organic pudding, Lol -Johnny Wowk aka Johnny The Walker

5. Christina Randolph:

   Well, I’m a nurse, and it’s really, really hard to get time off work. So when you finally get time off, you really want to be somewhere you want to be, some people’s vacations are ruined. They were only going for a couple of nights. Now, they have to get rebooked.