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Definition of Nurse
1. Verb. Try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury. "Did he nurse his foot? "; "He nursed his cold with Chinese herbs"
Generic synonyms: Care For, Treat
Derivative terms: Nursing
2. Noun. One skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician).
Generic synonyms: Caregiver, Health Care Provider, Health Professional, Pcp, Primary Care Provider
Specialized synonyms: Cavell, Edith Cavell, Edith Louisa Cavell, Florence Nightingale, Lady With The Lamp, Nightingale, Margaret Higgins Sanger, Margaret Sanger, Sanger
Group relationships: Nurse-patient Relation
3. Verb. Maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings). "Harbor a resentment"
4. Noun. A woman who is the custodian of children.
Specialized synonyms: Dry Nurse, Mammy, Amah, Wet Nurse, Wet-nurse, Wetnurse
Generic synonyms: Keeper, Adult Female, Woman
5. Verb. Serve as a nurse; care for sick or handicapped people.
6. Verb. Treat carefully. "He nursed the flowers in his garden and fertilized them regularly"
7. Verb. Give suck to. "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places"
Related verbs: Suck
Generic synonyms: Feed, Give
Antonyms: Bottlefeed
Derivative terms: Lactation, Lactation, Lactation, Nursery, Nursing, Suck, Sucker
Definition of Nurse
1. n. One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as:
2. v. t. To nourish; to cherish; to foster
Definition of Nurse
1. Noun. (archaic) A wet-nurse. ¹
2. Noun. A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young. ¹
3. Noun. A person trained to provide care for the sick. ¹
4. Verb. to breast feed ¹
5. Verb. to care for the sick ¹
6. Verb. to treat kindly and with extra care ¹
7. Verb. to drink slowly ¹
8. Verb. to foster, to nourish ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nurse
1. to care for the sick or infirm [v NURSED, NURSING, NURSES]
Medical Definition of Nurse
1.
1. To nourish; to cherish; to foster; as: 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. "Sons wont to nurse their parents in old age." (Milton) "Him in Egerian groves Aricia bore, And nursed his youth along the marshy shore." (Dryden)
2. 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 nurse the saplings tall." "By what hands [has vice] been nursed into so uncontrolled a dominion?" (Locke)
3. To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.
4. To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does. To nurse billiard balls, to strike them gently and so as to keep them in good position during a series of caroms.
Origin: Nursed; Nursing.
1. One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm.
2. One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like. "The nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise." (Burke)
3. A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place.
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