Australian English Meaning of nurse
nurse
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Definitions and Meaning of nurse in English
nurse (n)
one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician)
a woman who is the custodian of children
nurse (v)
try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury
maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
serve as a nurse; care for sick or handicapped people
treat carefully
give suck to
nurse (n.)
One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm.
One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.
A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place.
A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia.
Either one of the nurse sharks.
nurse (v. t.)
To nourish; to cherish; to foster
To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant.
To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon.
To bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants, animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by, attention.
To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.
To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does.
FAQs About the word nurse
nurse
one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician), a woman who is the custodian of children, try to cure by sp
nanny,nanny,Babysitter,babysitter,nanny,wet nurse,Maid,Au pair,Verse,bonne
forget,neglect,slight,brush (aside or off),overlook
nurnberg => Nuremberg, nurling => not found, nurled => Knurled, nurl => burl, nureyev => Nureyev,
