nursenoun [ C ]
uk/nɜːs/us/nɝːs/A2 (the title given to) a person whose job is to care for people who are ill or injured, especially in a hospital:
old-fashioned a woman employed to take care of a young child or children
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- The door opened and a nurse came into the room.
- The nurse bandaged my sprained ankle to keep the swelling down.
- Some hospitals are so shorthanded that nurses and doctors are having to work 20-hour shifts.
- She gave a wince as the nurse put the needle in.
- The nurse will take your blood pressure in a moment.
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Medical treatment: doctors & health workers generally
- anaesthetist
- auxiliary nurse
- charge nurse
- clinician
- consultant
- dental practitioner/surgeon
- doctor's orders
- ENT
- GP
- houseman
- LPN
- medical examiner
- mo
- nursing
- occupational therapy
- odontologist
- radiographer
- resident
- senior nursing officer
- specialist
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nurseverb [ T ]
uk/nɜːs/us/nɝːs/nurse verb [ T ] (TAKE CARE OF)
C2 to care for a person or an animal while they are ill:
to spend a lot of time taking care of something as it grows or develops:
If you nurse an illness or injury, you rest until it gets better:
UK to hold a small child in your arms as a way of making them feel better:
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Medical treatment: treating & caring for people
- attention
- bedside manner
- bring
- care
- care for sb
- clinic
- domiciliary
- eye
- first-line treatment
- keep your/an eye on sth/sb idiom
- mind
- minister
- minister to sb
- modality
- patch sb/sth up
- referral
- section
- set sb up
- soothe
- tend
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nurse verb [ T ] (FEED)
When a woman nurses a baby, she feeds it with milk from her breasts.
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Giving food to people & animals
- bottle-feed
- breastfeed
- fatted
- fatten sb/sth up
- fed
- feed
- feed sb/sth up
- force-feed
- nourish
- nursing
- spoon
- spoon-feed
- tube feeding
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nurse verb [ T ] (FEEL EMOTION)
to have a strong feeling or an emotion for a long time:
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Experiencing and suffering
- afflict
- affliction
- almost/nearly die of sth idiom
- be a martyr to sth idiom
- be a victim of your own success idiom
- be devoured by sth idiom
- get the short end of the stick idiom
- get/have your fingers burned idiom
- go through sth
- grip
- hands-on
- hold
- ride
- sample
- seat
- sense
- undergo
- underwent
- ups and downs
- writhe
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nurse verb [ T ] (HOLD)
to hold a drink for a long time without drinking it:
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Drinking alcohol
- after hours idiom
- bender
- binge drinking
- booze
- booze-up
- drinking
- drinking-up time
- drown your sorrows idiom
- Dutch courage
- hangover
- happy hour
- hatch
- mud
- on the booze idiom
- out of hours idiom
- piss-up
- poison
- pub crawl
- put sth back
- spike
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