Meaning of 'nurse' (Webster Dictionary)
- One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or
brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children;
especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person,
especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm.
- One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow,
trains, fosters, or the like.
- A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander
when the captain is unfit for his place.
- A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces
cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia.
- Either one of the nurse sharks.
- To nourish; to cherish; to foster
- To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as
an infant.
- To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid;
to attend upon.
- To bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid
condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants, animals, and to
any object that needs, or thrives by, attention.
- To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase;
as, to nurse our national resources.
- To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does.
Meaning of 'nurse' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
Example in sentence:- bear a grudge;
- entertain interesting notions;
- harbor a resentment
Meaning (2):
- try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury
Example in sentence:- He nursed his cold with Chinese herbs
Meaning (3):
- treat carefully
Example in sentence:- He nursed his injured back by lying in bed several hours every afternoon;
- He nursed the flowers in his garden and fertilized them regularly
Meaning (4):
- give suck to
Example in sentence:- The wetnurse suckled the infant;
- You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places
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