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Another word for nurture

nurture Synonyms

nurture

n.

Nourishment
pabulum, nutriment, sustenance; see food, subsistence 1.
Training
upbringing, breeding, care; see education 1, training.

nurture Synonyms

nurture

v.

nourish, care for, provide (for); see feed, sustain 2, train 4.

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Another word for nurture

noun

Something fit to be eaten:

aliment, bread, comestible, diet, edible, esculent, fare, food, foodstuff, meat, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, pap, provender, provision (used in plural), sustenance, victual. (Slang) chow, eats, grub. See ingestion

verb

To promote and sustain the development of:

cultivate, foster, nourish, nurse. See care for

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I have the same need to nurture and protect.
I resented our relationship, but I continued to nurture it.
How could God do this to them when all they wanted was to love each other and nurture their own children?
Lord Palmerston, on the other hand, had no personal grudge to nurture, but he was convinced that the first duty of England was to support Turkey and to resist Russia.
In Trendelenburg's treatment of the state, as the ethical organism in which the individual (the potential man) may be said first to emerge into actuality, we may trace his nurture on the best ideas of Hellenic antiquity.

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