nourish
nourish is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.
- transitive verb. To support; to maintain.
- transitive verb. To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues.
- transitive verb. To cherish; to comfort.
- transitive verb. To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to promote the growth of in attainments.
- intransitive verb. To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.
- intransitive verb. To gain nourishment.
- noun. A nurse.
- verb. provide with nourishment
"We sustained ourselves on bread and water"
"This kind of food is not nourishing for young children"
- verb. give nourishment to
Synonyms
nurture, sustain, aliment, nutrify
Common word forms
nourished, nourisher, nourishes, nourishing, nourishable, nourishment
Words from these letters
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