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nurse N0196200 (nûrs)n.1. A person trained to provide medical care for the sick or disabled, especially one who is licensed and works in a hospital or physician's office.2. a. A person employed to take care of a young child.b. A woman employed to suckle children other than her own; a wet nurse.3. One that serves as a nurturing or fostering influence or means: "Town life is the nurse of civilization" (C.L.R. James).4. Zoology A worker ant or bee that feeds and cares for the colony's young.v. nursed, nurs·ing, nurs·es v.tr.1. To serve as a nurse for: nursed the patient back to health.2. To cause or allow to take milk from the breast or teat: a mother nursing her baby; whales nursing their young.3. To try to cure by special care or treatment: nurse a cough with various remedies.4. To treat carefully, especially in order to prevent pain: He nursed his injured knee by shifting his weight to the other leg.5. To manage or guide carefully; look after with care; foster: nursed her business through the depression. See Synonyms at nurture.6. To bear privately in the mind: nursing a grudge.7. To consume slowly, especially in order to conserve: nursed one drink all evening.v.intr.1. To serve as a nurse.2. a. To take milk from the breast or teat; suckle: The baby is nursing. Puppies nurse for a few weeks.b. To feed an offspring from the breast or teat: a mother who's nursing; what to feed cows when they're nursing.
[Middle English norice, nurse, wet nurse, from Old French norrice, from Vulgar Latin *nutrīcia, from Late Latin nūtrīcia, from feminine of Latin nūtrīcius, that suckles, from nūtrīx, nūtrīc-, wet nurse; see (s)nāu- in Indo-European roots.]
nurs′er n.Thesaurus| Adj. | 1. | nursed - (of an infant) breast-fedsuckledbreast-fed - (of an infant) fed milk from the mother's breast |
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