Nurture synonyms
Category:
Part of speech:
To foster the development of; promote:
To control, or compose, one's expression.
deprive (antonym)
To take something away from:
ignore (antonym)
To disregard deliberately; pay no attention to; refuse to consider
Means of support; necessity
food (related)
(Uncountable, figuratively) Anything intended to supply energy or nourishment of an entity or idea.
The usual kind of diet
provide for
subsistence (related)
The quality of being inherent
feed (related)
To be nourished or supported:
sustain (related)
To support from below; keep from falling or sinking; prop:
train (related)
Train means to guide, coach or instruct.
To buoy up or hearten:
To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid.
To promote the development or growth of; acquire and develop
To acquire secondary sex characteristics. Used especially of a girl.
To provide with information, as in an effort to gain support for a position or to influence behavior:
To promote the growth and development of; cultivate:
To act or serve as a mother.
To suckle a child
To grow, especially in quantity; cultivate:
(Archaic) To lift upright; raise.
To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.
To give instruction at or in (a place)
(With to) To look after (e.g. an ill person.) [from the early 14th c.]
To give moral or spiritual support or encouragement to
ignorance (antonym)
Unawareness (of)
neglect (antonym)
The state or fact of being neglected:
starvation (antonym)
The state of being starved
Food in general, regarded as necessary for sustaining life:
(Chiefly in the plural) Anything that can be eaten; food. [From 19th c.]
A program or plan consisting of a special or limited selection of food and drink and designed to promote health or a gain or loss of weight; specif., such a program or plan designed to promote weight loss
Anything edible.
Something edible; a comestible.
The act of nourishing or the state of being nourished
Anything that promotes growth, development, or good health
Anything that nourishes; nourishment; food
Bland intellectual fare; an undemanding diet of words.
Material lacking real value or substance:
An edible material that provides sustenance.
Provision is defined as a supply of something or to the act of providing a supply of something.
One's means of livelihood; maintenance; support
(Informal, Dial.) Articles of food, esp. when prepared for use
The definition of a chow is a breed of Chinese dog, a chow chow, with a thick coat and a black tongue.
The short, fat, wormlike larva of certain insects, esp. of a beetle
One's line of descent; ancestry:
helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
Raising someone to be an accepted member of the community.
The state of being a foster child
Recruitment.
Act of raising young.
Upbringing is the way a child is raised, or the lessons, instructions and teachings that his or her parents impart.
To cause to come into existence; originate.
A cause of such a mental state
deprivation (antonym)
Deprivation is defined as the state of having something withheld from the enjoyment or possession of someone.
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