Nourish

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  • transitive verb. To provide with food or other substances necessary for life and growth; feed.
  • transitive verb. To foster the development of; promote.
  • transitive verb. To keep alive; maintain.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To nurse; suckle; bring up, as a child.
  • To feed; supply (a living or organized body, animal or vegetable) with the material required to repair the waste accompanying the vital processes and to promote growth; supply with nutriment.
  • To promote the growth or development of in any way; foster; cherish.
  • To support; maintain, in a general sense; supply the means of support and increase to; encourage.
  • To bring up; educate; instruct.
  • To serve to promote growth; be nutritious.
  • To gain nourishment.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.
  • intransitive verb. To gain nourishment.
  • noun. A nurse.
  • transitive verb. To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.
  • transitive verb. To support; to maintain.
  • transitive verb. To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster
  • transitive verb. To cherish; to comfort.
  • transitive verb. To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to promote the growth of in attainments.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A nurse.
  • verb. To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.
  • verb. To support; to maintain.
  • verb. To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues.
  • verb. To cherish; to comfort.
  • verb. To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to promote the growth of in attainments.
  • verb. To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.
  • verb. To gain nourishment.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. provide with nourishment
  • verb. give nourishment to
  • Word Usage
    ""nourish" - delivered an evening of high-energy dances interspersed with inspirational quotations."
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    foster  
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    feed  give  
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    abet  advance  aid  aid and abet  aliment  
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