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Wiktionary4.5 / 2 votes

  1. nurseverb

    to drink slowly

    Synonyms:
    sip

English Synonyms and Antonyms1.5 / 2 votes

  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

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  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

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. nurseverb

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

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  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. Lauren Brown:

    Just seeing the impact that the nurses made that was really changing for me, the nurse is that person there for you day in and day out to see that person get better.

  2. Renata Freydin:

    I saw the picture and I knew right away it was nurse Lissa, david Caldwell didn't believe me and said' no way, it's not possible.'.

  3. Connie Whitehead:

    He was so excited about being a nurse.

  4. Nurse Efe Obiakor:

    As a Black nurse, it's very important for me to come out today because in the system where I work, and in the NHS as a whole, there is racism.

  5. Justin Sattina:

    It's a story I’ve heard plenty of times, that the patient resisted seeking help but the spouse insisted or they call the daughter who happens to be a nurse or whatever, and that's why they’re here.


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