nurse
/nɜːs//nɝs/noun
Definitions
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".
verb
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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.