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nursingverbpresent participle of nurse to attend to the needs and comforts ofwillingly lent a hand to nurse his grandmother in her final years, helping her get from one room to the other and making sure she was warm administering (to), caring (for), ministering (to), mothering curing, healing, remedyingdoctoring, treatingaiding, conserving, preserving, providing (for), supportingbabying, coddling, mollycoddling, pampering, spoilingcatering (to), humoringindulging doing for(chiefly British), looking after, looking out for, looking to, seeing to, taking care of, waiting on(also waiting upon) brushing (aside or off), forgetting, ignoring, neglecting, overlooking, slighting to give milk to from the breasta new mother's decision to nurse her baby to keep in one's mind or hearthe continues to nurse a tender affection for his first girlfriend bearing, cherishing, entertaining, harboring, having, holding cultivating, fostering, nurturing, supporting, sustainingcarrying, keeping, maintaining, preserving, remembering, retaining, treasuringcleaving (to), clinging (to), hugging, sticking (to)brooding (about or over), fixating (on or upon), obsessing (about or over) hanging on to, holding on to disregarding, dropping, forgetting, ignoring, neglecting, overlookingabjuring, declining, denying, disdaining, refusing, rejecting, repudiating, scorningabandoning, deserting, discarding, forsaking, giving up, parting (with), quitting, renouncing, throwing outerasing, expunging to treat with great or excessive carenursed his sprained ankle for the rest of the week babying, cockering, coddling, cosseting, dandling, indulging, mollycoddling, pampering, spoiling, wet-nursing catering (to), humoringcontenting, delighting, gladdening, gratifying, mothering, obliging, pleasing, satisfyingappeasing, mollifying, pacifying, placating, soothing abusing, ill-treating, ill-using, maltreating, manhandling, mishandling, mistreating, misusing controlling, disciplining, restrainingoppressingneglecting, overlooking, slightingmolesting, outraging, violatingharassing, harming, hurting, injuring, oppressing, persecuting, tormenting, torturing, victimizing to bring to maturity through care and educationas foster parents they accepted and nursed 16 needy children over the years breeding, bringing up, fostering, nourishing, raising, rearing fathering, motheringattending, caring (for), cradling, cultivating, minding, ministering (to), nurturing, watchingdisciplining, educating, instructing, mentoring, schooling, teaching, training, tutoringedifying, enlightening, indoctrinatingfeeding, providing (for), supplyingadvancing, forwarding, furthering, promotingpreparingdirecting, guiding, leading, shepherding, showing abusing, ill-treating, ill-using, maltreating, mishandling, mistreatingignoring, neglectingharming, hurting, injuring to help the growth or development ofher teachers did much to nurse her literary talent advancing, cultivating, encouraging, forwarding, fostering, furthering, incubating, nourishing, nurturing, promoting advocating, backing, championing, endorsing(also indorsing), supporting, upholdingendowing, financing, funding, patronizing, staking, subsidizing, underwritingabetting, aiding, assistingadvertising, boosting, plugging, publicizing, toutingagitating (for), campaigning (for), working (for) discouraging, frustrating, hindering, inhibiting banning, barring, enjoining, forbidding, interdicting, outlawing, preventing, prohibiting, proscribingbattling, combating(or combatting), contending (with), countering, fighting, opposingrepressing, snuffing (out), squashing, squelching, stifling, subduing, suppressingarresting, checking, halting, retardingencumbering, fettering, hobbling, impeding, interfering (with), manacling, obstructing, shackling to use or give out in stingy amountshe carefully nursed his energy during the marathon so that he would have something left for the final stretch scanting, skimping (on), sparing, stinting (on) doling out, meting (out), portioning (out), rationing (out)pinching, shortchangingconserving, preserving heaping, lavishing, pouring, raining, showering ca. 1533 |