Another word for nurture
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Noun
Something fit to be eaten
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Verb
To promote and sustain the development of
- A person trained to provide medical care for the sick or disabled, especially one who is licensed and works in a hospital or physician's office.
- A person employed to take care of a young child.
- A woman employed to suckle children other than her own; a wet nurse.
- To provide with food or other substances necessary for life and growth; feed.
- To foster the development of; promote:
- To keep alive; maintain:
- To bring up; nurture:
- To promote the growth and development of; cultivate:
- To nurse; cherish:
- To improve and prepare (land), as by plowing or fertilizing, for raising crops; till.
- To loosen or dig soil around (growing plants).
- To grow or tend (a plant or crop).
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Another word for nurture
Noun
Nourishment
- The supporting of life or health; maintenance or means of livelihood:
- Something, especially food, that sustains life or health:
- Something that sustains something else; essential support:
- A source of nourishment; food.
- An agent that promotes growth or development.
- A substance that gives nourishment; food.
- Insipid intellectual nourishment:
Training
- A concerned or troubled state of mind, as that arising from serious responsibility; worry.
- An object or source of worry, attention, or solicitude:
- Interest, regard, or liking:
- One's line of descent; ancestry:
- Upbringing or education, especially in proper social behavior.
- The production of offspring or young:
- The rearing and training received during childhood.
Verb
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