Dictionary Entry
nurse
nurse is a 5-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 7 · 18 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm.
- 2noun
One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.
- 3noun
A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place.
- 4noun
A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria Redia.
- 5noun
Either one of the nurse sharks.
- 6transitive verb
To nourish; to cherish; to foster
- 7transitive verb
To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant.
- 8transitive verb
To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon.
- 9transitive verb
To bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants, animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by, attention.
- 10transitive verb
To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.
- 11transitive verb
To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does.
- 12noun
a woman who is the custodian of children
- 13noun
one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician)
- 14verb
try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury
"He nursed his cold with Chinese herbs"
- 15verb
give suck to
"The wetnurse suckled the infant"
"You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places"
- 16verb
maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
"bear a grudge"
"entertain interesting notions"
- 17verb
treat carefully
"He nursed his injured back by lying in bed several hours every afternoon"
"He nursed the flowers in his garden and fertilized them regularly"
- 18verb
serve as a nurse; care for sick or handicapped people
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