nurse
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Is nurse a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. A person involved in providing direct care for the sick:Examples: "My aunt was my nurse while I recuperated at home from surgery."informal
2. A person involved in providing direct care for the sick:
3. (figurative) One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters.Examples: "Eton College has been called "the chief nurse of England's statesmen"."; "the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise"figuratively
4. (horticulture) A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.
5. (nautical) A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
6. (archaic) A wet nurse.archaic
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle.Examples: "She believes that nursing her baby will make him strong and healthy."transitive
2. (intransitive) To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast.intransitive
3. (transitive) To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to.Examples: "She nursed him back to health."transitive
4. (transitive) To tend gently and with extra care.Examples: "She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed."transitive
5. (transitive) To manage or oversee (something) with care and economy.Synonyms: husband#Verbtransitive
6. (transitive, informal) To drink (a beverage) slowly, so as to make it last.Examples: "Rob was nursing a small beer."Synonyms: sipinformaltransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary