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Meaning of nurse
noun
- A wet nurse.
- A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young. Example: They hired a nurse to care for their young boy.
- A person trained to provide care for the sick. Example: The nurse made her rounds through the hospital ward.
- One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters. Example: Eton College has been called "the chief nurse of England's statesmen".
- A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.
verb
- To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle. Example: She believes that nursing her baby will make him strong and healthy.
- To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast.
- To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to. Example: She nursed him back to health.
- To treat kindly and with extra care Example: She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed.
- To manage with care and economy
Source: Free Dictionary API.
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