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nurturingverbpresent participle of nurture to help the growth or development ofwanted to find the art school that would best nurture his artistic talent advancing, cultivating, encouraging, forwarding, fostering, furthering, incubating, nourishing, nursing, 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 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 edifying, educating, enlightening, illuminating, illuming, illumining, inspiring elevating, ennobling, enriching, ensouling, lifting, upliftingbettering, improving, regenerating, renewing, transformingexalting, glorifying, transfiguring confusing, perplexing, puzzlingbeclouding, clouding, darkening, obscuring to supply with nourishmentnurtured their children through the long winters with home-cooked soup nourishing, sustaining satiating, sating, satisfyingnursing, sucklingcloying, filling, surfeitingfortifying, replenishing, strengtheningfeedingboarding, catering, provisioning, victualing(or victualling) |