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a person formally educated and trained in the care of the sick or infirm. Compare nurse-midwife, nurse-practitioner, physician's assistant, practical nurse, registered nurse.

a woman who has the general care of a child or children; dry nurse.

a woman employed to suckle an infant; wet nurse.

any fostering agency or influence.

Entomology. a worker that attends the young in a colony of social insects.

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Billiards. the act of maintaining the position of billiard balls in preparation for a carom.

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verb (used with object)

to tend or minister to in sickness, infirmity, etc.

to try to cure (an ailment) by taking care of oneself: to nurse a cold.

to look after carefully so as to promote growth, development, etc.; foster; cherish: to nurse one's meager talents.

10.

to treat or handle with adroit care in order to further one's own interests: to nurse one's nest egg.

11.

to use, consume, or dispense very slowly or carefully: He nursed the one drink all evening.

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12.

to keep steadily in mind or memory: He nursed a grudge against me all the rest of his life.

13.

to suckle (an infant).

14.

to feed and tend in infancy.

15.

to bring up, train, or nurture.

16.

to clasp or handle carefully or fondly: to nurse a plate of food on one's lap.

17.

Billiards. to maintain the position of (billiard balls) for a series of caroms.

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verb (used without object)

18.

to suckle a child, especially one's own.

19.

(of a child) to suckle: The child did not nurse after he was three months old.

20.

to act as nurse; tend the sick or infirm.

Origin:
1350–1400; (noun) Middle English, variant of n(o)urice, norice < Old French < Late Latin nūtrīcia, noun use of feminine of Latin nūtrīcius nutritious; (v.) earlier nursh (reduced form of nourish), assimilated to the noun

Related forms

non·nurs·ing, adjective

o·ver·nurse, verb (used with object), -nursed, -nurs·ing.

un·der·nurse, noun

well-nursed, adjective

Synonyms
9. encourage, abet, help, aid, back. 14. rear, raise. Nurse, nourish, nurture may be used almost interchangeably to refer to bringing up the young. Nurse, however, suggests attendance and service; nourish emphasizes providing whatever is needful for development; and nurture suggests tenderness and solicitude in training mind and manners.

Antonyms
7, 9. neglect.

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Example Sentences

Kids can print illustrations of nurse sharks and other animals to color or use in school projects.

Scientists wait and watch as nurse shark females pick and choose which male they'll mate with.

Bison cows give birth after nine months and nurse their calves for about a year.

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Kids can print illustrations of nurse sharks and other animals to color or use in school projects.

Scientists wait and watch as nurse shark females pick and choose which male they'll mate with.

Bison cows give birth after nine months and nurse their calves for about a year.

Sand sharks, also known as sand tigers and gray nurse sharks, have a deceivingly ferocious look.

One year teaching experience in a registered nurse education program.

Earlier in the month it killed three others: a patient, plus a doctor and nurse who had cared for her.

Richard went on to marry the nurse who had cared for him.

Medical companies ignored the needs of premature infants, inspiring a nurse to become an entrepreneur.

One nurse suggested it might have been a kidney stone, a worthy suggestion.

The nurse then scans the medicine container and the system registers the dosage.

Ask any nurse you know that has worked in a hospital.

One nurse says her clinic can't afford the insurance to ward off the suits.

Charlie's mother was too sick to nurse him, and workers struggled to keep.

Together they had two children, one of whom works today as a nurse in a dialysis unit.

My sharp-eyed companions pointed out barracuda and a nurse shark, lying quietly in the shallows.

The lemon and nurse sharks inside instantly darted to the opposite wall.

My child wanted to put together a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of both sets of parents against the nurse and the friar.

As a young woman she trained as a nurse and as a teacher.

The two shark specialists have studied nurse shark.

The research team originally reported that hospital nurse staffing was tied to patients' outcomes a decade ago.

Nurse wearing a mask as protection against influenza.

The nurse had moved near the top of the chart before he could reliably read anything.

The nurse comes in and says he is having seizures/involuntary movement.

The trial has laid bare the wounds that buy-out firms and banks still nurse after the financial crisis.

They return to land to give birth and nurse their young.

In addition, you should tie the legs of the calf so it does not immediately try to nurse the cow.

He also scooped up a sick chick-its eyes were crusted shut-planning to nurse it back to health and return it to its nest.

The third holds an endoscope-usually a job for a human nurse.

Babies tend to want to nurse a lot when they are sick.

Then a virtual nurse will take them to a bed, where they will lie down to have virtual blood taken.

She leaves the cave twice each night to feed, returning to nurse the pup.

Practice good hygiene and call a doctor or nurse if you have questions.

Anemic man, stingy with his own blood, asks only that she be a nurse.

If you breastfeed, you'll have to figure out how to pump and/or nurse throughout the day.

Indeed, low rates are a semi-deliberate subsidy to help nurse banks back to health.

The mother will protect and nurse the cubs for about two and a half years.

Not being able to nurse and choosing not to ever nurse are two different things.

The oncology nurse came out and told us he woke up during surgery and started pulling at all the tubes etc and had a heart attack.

In cases where the patient was not able on his own to administer the lethal dose, a doctor or nurse would be permitted to do so.

The hospital used a staff nurse and directly connected her to me to save my life in a blood transfusion.

The nurse then enters the patient's name and chooses from a menu of available drugs.

The village nurse has no antibiotics, let alone good transport.

Even after it leaves the pouch, the young animal will frequently crawl back in to nurse or to escape danger.

Finally, a nurse directs him to an examination room, tells him to drop his pants and lie face down on the examination table.

It's already had plenty of shots and the nurse is having trouble finding a vein.

My mom grew up with the option of being a teacher or a nurse in her family.

The cubs continue to be swapped for months, until they can eat solid foods and no longer need to nurse.

Make sure you thank a doctor or nurse for curing you instead of thanking an imaginary sky-daddy.

Bringing me back to reality: the nurse chick ripping off the handy disposable self-stick electrodes, bristling with my body hair.

Some of their relatives must down hoes to nurse them, and spare cash in the family biscuit tin must be spent on anti-malarial.

June softly calls to her cubs they climb out of the tree, following her to nurse.

Schick asked the nurse again, and again she refused to handle the flowers.

Generally, she will nurse them for two and a half years.

After the infant initially leaves the pouch at eight months, it will continue to return to the pouch to nurse.

They hold infants on their chests to nurse them, and quickly teach them to swim and hunt.

They use their sense of smell to tell which pup is theirs when it is time for the babies to nurse.

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World English Dictionary

nurse (nɜːs)

—n
1.	a person who tends the sick, injured, or infirm
2.	short for nursemaid
3.	a woman employed to breast-feed another woman's child; wet nurse
4.	a worker in a colony of social insects that takes care of the larvae

—vb
5.	(also intr) to tend (the sick)
6.	(also intr) to feed (a baby) at the breast; suckle
7.	to try to cure (an ailment)
8.	to clasp carefully or fondly: she nursed the crying child in her arms
9.	(also intr) (of a baby) to suckle at the breast (of)
10.	to look after (a child) as one's employment
11.	to attend to carefully; foster, cherish: he nursed the magazine through its first year; having a very small majority he nursed the constituency diligently
12.	to harbour; preserve: to nurse a grudge
13.	billiards to keep (the balls) together for a series of cannons

[C16: from earlier norice, Old French nourice, from Late Latin nūtrīcia nurse, from Latin nūtrīcius nourishing, from nūtrīre to nourish]

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Word Origin & History

nurse

12c., nurrice "wet nurse, foster-mother to a young child," from O.Fr. norrice (source of proper name Norris), from L.L. *nutricia "nurse, governess, tutoress," from L., fem. of nutricius "that suckles, nourishes," from nutrix (gen. nutricis) "wet nurse," from nutrire "to suckle" (see

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nourish). Meaning "person who takes care of sick" first recorded in Eng. 1590; the verb is first attested 1535 in sense of "to suckle (an infant)," 1526 in the passive sense, alt. of M.E. nurshen (13c.; see nourish), originally "to bring up or suckle a child," sense of "take care of (a sick person)" is first recorded 1736.

nurse

"dog fish, shark," 1499, of unknown origin.

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Medical Dictionary

nurse (nûrs)
n.

A person trained to care for the sick or disabled, especially one educated in the scientific basis of human response to health problems and trained to assist a physician.
A wet nurse.
An individual who cares for an infant or young child.

v. nursed, nurs·ing, nurs·es

To serve as a nurse.
To provide or take nourishment from the breast; suckle.

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