nourish
Use Nourish in a sentence
ɪʃ, ˈnʌr- verb (used with object)
1.
to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
3.
to strengthen, build up, or promote: to nourish discontent among the workers; to nourish the arts in one's community.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English norisshe < Old French noriss-, long stem of norir < Latin nūtrīre to feed; see nurse, -ish2
1250–1300; Middle English norisshe < Old French noriss-, long stem of norir < Latin nūtrīre to feed; see nurse, -ish2
Related forms
nour·ish·a·ble, adjective
nour·ish·er, noun
o·ver·nour·ish, verb (used with object)
re·nour·ish, verb (used with object)
self-nour·ished, adjective
Antonyms
3. discourage.
3. discourage.
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World English Dictionary
nourish (ˈnʌrɪʃ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to provide with the materials necessary for life and growth |
| 2. | to support or encourage (an idea, feeling, etc); foster: to nourish resentment |
| [C14: from Old French norir, from Latin nūtrīre to feed, care for] | |
| 'nourisher | |
| —n | |
| 'nourishing | |
| —adj | |
| 'nourishingly | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
nourish
late 13c., "to bring up, nurture" (a child, a feeling, etc.), from O.Fr. norriss-, stem of norrir (Fr. nourir), from L. nutrire "to feed, nurse, foster, support, preserve," from *nutri (older form of nutrix "nurse"), lit. "she who gives suck," from PIE base *(s)nu- "flow, let flow," hence "to suckle"
(cf. Skt. snauti "she drips, gives milk," Gk. nao "I flow").
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Medical Dictionary
nourish nour·ish (nûr'ĭsh, nŭr'-)
v. nour·ished, nour·ish·ing, nour·ish·es
To provide with food or other substances necessary for sustaining life and growth.
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Example sentences
Such operations involve replumbing the blood supply to nourish the repositioned tissue or bone.
Such fertilizers are named according to the plant they're intended to nourish.
Aside from having delicious taste, it has also many vitamins to nourish our body.
These specimen books nourish and replenish, inform and delight.
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