Dictionary Entry
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.
7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.
- 2transitive verb
To support; to maintain.
- 3transitive verb
To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues.
- 4transitive verb
To cherish; to comfort.
- 5transitive verb
To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to promote the growth of in attainments.
- 6intransitive verb
To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.
- 7intransitive verb
To gain nourishment.
- 8noun
A nurse.
- 9verb
provide with nourishment
"We sustained ourselves on bread and water"
"This kind of food is not nourishing for young children"
- 10verb
give nourishment to
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