nourishverb [ T ]
uk/ˈnʌr.ɪʃ/us/ˈnɝː.ɪʃ/to provide people or living things with food in order to make them grow and keep them healthy:
Children need plenty of good fresh food to nourish them.
She looks happy and well nourished.
This cream is supposed to help nourish your skin.
formal If you nourish a feeling, belief, or plan, you think about it a lot and encourage it:
Lisa has long nourished the hope of becoming a famous writer.
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Giving food to people & animals
- bottle-feed
- breastfeed
- fatted
- fatten sb/sth up
- fed
- feed
- feed sb/sth up
- force-feed
- nurse
- nursing
- spoon
- spoon-feed
- tube feeding
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Encouraging and urging on