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nourish

/nur-ish, nuhr-/US // ˈnɜr ɪʃ, ˈnʌr- //UK // (ˈnʌrɪʃ) //

滋养,滋润,滋补,颐养

Related Words

cultivate培养,栽培,培育,培植tend倾向,倾向于,倾向性,趋向sustain维持,保持,持续,持续的cherish珍惜,珍视,爱惜,珍爱foster培养,促进,养育,培育attend参加,出席,出席会议,参会supply供应,提供,补给,供应品provide提供,规定,供,具备support支持,支助,支撑,支持率comfort舒适度,舒适性,舒适,舒适感encourage鼓励,激励,励,励志maintain保持,维持,维护,维护好nurture抚育,培养,培育,养育promote促进,推动,推广,推销nurse护士,护理人员,护士长,护理员furnish提供,提供家具,供给,配备

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
    • : to cherish, foster, keep alive, etc.: He had long nourished the dream of living abroad.
    • : to strengthen, build up, or promote: to nourish discontent among the workers; to nourish the arts in one's community.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbfeed, care for
Forms: nourished, nourishes, nourishing
Synonyms
cherish珍惜,珍视,爱惜,珍爱cultivate培养,栽培,培育,培植sustain维持,保持,持续,持续的tend倾向,倾向于,倾向性,趋向attend参加,出席,出席会议,参会comfort舒适度,舒适性,舒适,舒适感encourage鼓励,激励,励,励志foster培养,促进,养育,培育furnish提供,提供家具,供给,配备maintain保持,维持,维护,维护好nurse护士,护理人员,护士长,护理员nurture抚育,培养,培育,养育promote促进,推动,推广,推销provide提供,规定,供,具备supply供应,提供,补给,供应品support支持,支助,支撑,支持率

Examples

  • Working as a doctor treating refugees at Mission Hospital, she created in 1989 the Shuhada Organization and Clinic in Quetta, Pakistan — which treated Afghan women and girls, healing them physically and nourishing them academically.

  • If you’re looking to avoid sulfates, parabens, or sodium chloride, then this nourishing scrub is for you.

  • One hormone called estrogen equips female bodies to release eggs and nourish a developing fetus.

  • Our brains falsely attribute the quality of breakfast to these items, perhaps to encourage us to eat them and thereby nourish ourselves.

  • The hornet then carries this treat home to nourish young hornets.

  • No trained medical provider could possibly expect to nourish a patient this way.

  • These micromoments, our research shows, nourish both you and the other person.

  • Breivik, currently cooperating with Norwegian police officials, may continue to nourish a similar attitude toward his own actions.

  • He spoke of “government that would not enslave the human spirit, but free it and nourish it throughout the generations.”

  • They nourish them with bitter commentary, and they nurse their grievances like they would feed a bottle to a starving infant.

  • And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep.

  • They lay like vast skeletons, serving to nourish the mushrooms which grew vigorously in the rank vegetation.

  • All the summer long these pastures nourish the sheep, poor enough beasts at the best.

  • They tasted fine and seemed to nourish him, so he really didn't care.

  • I seem to be speaking altogether of nourishing emotion, and we ought to nourish noble emotions.

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