Word Finder - nursed

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To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle.

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She believes that nursing her baby will make him strong and healthy.

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To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast.

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To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to.

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She nursed him back to health.

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To treat kindly and with extra care

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She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed.

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To manage with care and economy

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• husband

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To drink slowly

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To foster, to nourish

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To hold closely to one's chest

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Would you like to nurse the puppy?

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To strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots.

Davis ate and then nursed a cup of coffee in silence.

Queen Isabella visited and nursed him on his deathbed.

You are going to have your hands full for the next couple of weeks, but this wouldn't be the first orphaned kitten that someone has nursed to safety.

His fingers dug into her breast as he eagerly nursed.

Her tiny fingernails dug into his hand as she eagerly nursed.

If the baby falls asleep at the breast, the next feeding should begin with the breast that was not nursed.

She made baby sounds as she nursed – sounds that aroused an instinctive reaction.

Alex had nursed them back to health and released them in the area where the goats had been kept when she owned the dairy.

She made baby sounds as she nursed – sounds that aroused an instinctive reaction.

Some mothers choose to breastfeed their twins, and the advantage to breastfeeding is that the twins can be nursed together.

She nursed him assiduously during an illness he had in 1765, and from that period till her death in 1776 they lived in the same house without any scandal.

The language, nursed by the academy, developed 1840- rapidly, and showed its capacity for giving expression to 1880.

Neckam's mother nursed the prince with her own son, who thus became Richard's fosterbrother.

As his share in the controversy, Martineau published five discourses, in which he discussed " the Bible as the great autobiography of human nature from its infancy to its perfection," " the Deity of Christ," " Vicarious Redemption," " Evil," and " Christianity without Priest and without Ritual."' He remained to the end a keen and vigilant apologist of the school in which he had been nursed.

After being nursed by friends at Leipzig and Carlsbad, he rejoined his corps and fell in an engagement outside a wood near Gadebusch in Mecklenburg on the 26th of August 1813.

It is, indeed, most desirable that men should be nursed by men.

The larch, though mentioned by Parkinson in 1629 as "nursed up" by a few "lovers of variety " as a rare exotic, does not seem to have been much grown in England till early in the 18th century.

In June 1662, having given up his own house to a poor family who were suffering from small-pox, he went to his sister's house to be nursed, and never afterwards left it.

While the patient fellah, resigned to the decrees Of the Almighty, saw the ruling Egyptian class hurry away from Cairo, he saw also those of his comrades who were stricken tenderly nursed, soothed in deaths struggles, and in many cases actually washed, laid out and interred by their new self-sacrificing and determined masters.

Princess Alice nursed her father during his short illness with the utmost care, and after his death devoted herself to comforting her mother under this terrible blow.

For a generation nursed in decadent scholasticism and stereotyped theological formulae it was the fountain of renascent youth, beauty and freedom, the shape in which the Helen of art and poetry appeared to the ravished eyes of medieval Faustus.

The marriage of Mary and Darnley was now a question of practical politics, and the queen, having nursed her new suitor through an attack of measles, soon made up her mind to wed him, saying he "was the properest and best proportioned long man that ever she had seen."

He was taken over to England as an infant and nursed at Whitehaven, whence he returned to Ireland in his fourth year.

While Elizabeth nursed prosperity in peace, her subjects sapped the strength of Englands rivals by attacks which were none the less damaging because they escaped the name of war.

All the summer of 1704 he continued to decline, tenderly nursed by Lady Masham and her step-daughter Esther.

Now, 25 years later, 20 baby chameleons are being nursed by their giant chameleon mother just behind this doorway.

West Ham, tho they got back level, nursed legitimate grievance.

I nursed a hangover in the back of Lank & Harry's hire car.

Of these, 45 children were very malnourished, five of which died leaving 40 children who were nursed back to health.

Reid was nursed back to health by an Indian scout called Tonto, who declared " You only Ranger left.

On the one hand, the inmost shrine in which it is fashioned and nursed, the shrine of this poor heart of mine!

Passing by her infantine recollections, which go back further than even those of Dickens, we find her at the age of three crossing the Pyrenees to join her father who was on Murat's staff, occupying with her parents a suite of rooms in the royal palace, adopted as the child of the regiment, nursed by rough old sergeants, and dressed in a complete suit of uniform to please the general.

The consequence was a nervous illness with some of the symptoms of delirium tremens, through which George Sand nursed him with tenderness and care.

The first of these was an unimportant affair, probably nursed by the agents provocateurs of Fouche's ubiquitous police.

Another myth has it to be Olenus, a son of Hephaestus, and father of Aega and Helice, two nymphs who nursed Zeus.

The larch, though mentioned by Parkinson in 1629 as"nursed up " by a few " lovers of variety " as a rare exotic, does not seem to have been much grown in England till early in the 18th century.

The implication is that any time they nursed, they felt pain as well, to learn at an early age that there is no pleasure to be had in life without pain.

Of all those present, evidently he alone was not seeking anything for himself, nursed no hatred against anyone, and only desired that the plan, formed on a theory arrived at by years of toil, should be carried out.

Was it for this I nursed you....

Reid was nursed back to health by an Indian scout called Tonto, who declared You only Ranger left.

Your kitten is actually nursing his stuffed toy just as he would have nursed his mom.

A local doctor and his young daughter nursed the young man back to health.

Radio serials nursed the first relationship with listeners in 15 minute segments that aired each day.

Knight plays George O'Malley, the shy, but lovable intern who's nursed many bad relationships during his run on Grey's.

Vincent finds her and takes her to the tunnels where she is nursed back to health.

It was strange how he could blush at praise, but watch with unabashed interest while she nursed their child.

One of Mrs. Worthington's friends taped the debate and Fred and Cynthia listened to it while Dean nursed his ego, and an ale or two, on the front porch.

She smiled, thinking of the many times they played "Wingman" for each other and all the times he had nursed her through heartache.

Thinking about all the times he nursed her through heartache, she now realized how difficult it must have been for him to witness her pain.

Chopin was first petted by her like a spoilt darling and then nursed for years like a sick child.