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nurtureverb to help the growth or development ofwanted to find the art school that would best nurture his artistic talent advance, cultivate, encourage, forward, foster, further, incubate, nourish, nurse, promote advocate, back, champion, endorse(also indorse), support, upholdendow, finance, fund, patronize, stake, subsidize, underwriteabet, aid, assistadvertise, boost, plug, publicize, toutagitate (for), campaign (for), work (for) discourage, frustrate, hinder, inhibit ban, bar, enjoin, forbid, interdict, outlaw, prevent, prohibit, proscribebattle, combat, contend (with), counter, fight, opposerepress, snuff (out), squash, squelch, stifle, subdue, suppressarrest, check, halt, retardencumber, fetter, hobble, impede, interfere (with), manacle, obstruct, shackle to provide (someone) with moral or spiritual understandingshe feels that her lifelong practice of reading the Bible daily has nurtured her in ways she cannot describe edify, educate, enlighten, illume, illuminate, illumine, inspire elevate, ennoble, enrich, ensoul, lift, upliftbetter, improve, regenerate, renew, transformexalt, glorify, transfigure confuse, perplex, puzzlebecloud, cloud, darken, obscure to supply with nourishmentnurtured their children through the long winters with home-cooked soup nourish, sustain sate, satiate, satisfynurse, sucklecloy, fill, surfeitfortify, replenish, strengthenfeedboard, cater, provision, victual in the 14th century |