nourish
IPA: nˈɝɪʃ
noun
- (obsolete) A nurse.
verb
- (transitive) To feed and cause to grow; to supply with food or other matter which increases weight and promotes health.
- (transitive) To support; to maintain; to be responsible for.
- (transitive) To encourage; to foster; to stimulate
- (transitive)To cherish; to comfort.
- (transitive, of a person) To educate or bring up; to nurture; to promote emotional, spiritual or other non-physical growth.
- (intransitive) To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To gain nourishment.
Advertisement
Examples of "nourish" in Sentences
- But this mostly does not matter unless we 'nourish' their growth.
- "nourish" - delivered an evening of high-energy dances interspersed with inspirational quotations.
- Finally, I kind of nourish the probably vain hope that Madonna is smart enough to never get into another serious relationship.
- During those times, he would 'nourish' himself through eating fast foods, hotel restaurants, or other fine food establishments in various cities.
- It should be considered though that these minerals may not necessarily be present to "nourish" cells, but are needed to act as "electrodes" in the humic electrolyte solution.
- He hopes that the book may for many readers touch with new meaning those old weatherworn stones at Botany Bay, and make the personality of Laperouse live again for such as nourish an interest in
- Yet, Europe's most famous secular liberal philosopher, Jurgen Habermas, now argues that since postmodern society is unable to generate its own values, it can only "nourish" itself from religious sources.
- AmandaMarcotte This is my weirdness, but when someone writes about the politics of food, and the words "nourish" and "body" sit near each other, I gack. chickengreve I get myself all worked up about politics.
- The grass or herbage of these downs is full of the sweetest and the most aromatic plants, such as nourish the sheep to a strange degree; and the sheep's dung, again, nourishes that herbage to a strange degree; so that the valleys are rendered extremely fruitful by the washing of the water in hasty showers from off these hills.
Advertisement
Advertisement