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nurse
has definitions from the fields of work,medicine,food
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[ verb ] try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury
Examples : "He nursed his cold with Chinese herbs" Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)Ramsey has a thing or two to mutter about himself , for the Dallas defensive unit turned_in another splendid effort against Denver , and the Texans were able to whip the dangerous Broncs without the fullbacking of a top star , Jack_Spikes , though he did the team 's place-kicking while nursing a knee injury . |
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[ noun ] (medicine,work) one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician)
Used in print ([Anonymous,] "The Attack on Employee Services"...)Can your plant nurse be replaced by a trained first-aid man who works full-time on some_other assignment ? |
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[ noun ] (work) a woman who is the custodian of children
Used in print (Ann Hebson, The Lattimer Legend....)She had even steeled herself to keep Juanita upstairs in the nurse 's room off the empty nursery , although the girl tried to insist on moving_back to the quarters to spare Kate remembrance of the baby 's death . |
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[ verb ] maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
Examples "bear a grudge" "entertain interesting notions" "harbor a resentment" Used in print (Ralph J. Salisbury, "On the Old Santa Fe Trail...)Still nursing anger I listlessly thumbed a car that was slowly approaching , its pre-war chrome nearly blinding me . Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 8450
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[ verb ] serve as a nurse; care for sick or handicapped people
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[ verb ] treat carefully
Examples "He nursed his injured back by lying in bed several hours every afternoon" "He nursed the flowers in his garden and fertilized them regularly" Used in print (Booth Hemingway and Stuart H. Brown,...)Unless you want_to make your wife a pool widow and to spend a great many_of your leisure hours nursing your pool 's pristine purity , its care and feeding - from pH content to filtering and vacuuming - is best left to a weekly or bi-monthly professional service . |
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[ verb ] (food) give suck to
Synonyms suckle suck wet-nurse lactate give_suck bottle-feed breastfeed Examples "The wetnurse suckled the infant" "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places" |
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