nurtureverb [ T ]
uk/ˈnɜː.tʃər/us/ˈnɝː.tʃɚ/formalnurture verb [ T ] (HELP DEVELOP)
to take care of, feed, and protect someone or something, especially young children or plants, and help him, her, or it to develop:
She wants to stay at home and nurture her children.
a carefully nurtured garden
to help a plan or a person to develop and be successful:
As a record company executive, his job is to nurture young talent.
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Treating someone well
- allowance
- be spoilt for choice idiom
- coddle
- cosset
- do as you would be done by idiom
- do sb proud idiom
- indulge
- indulgence
- kid
- make much/a lot of sb idiom
- mollycoddle
- pander to sb/sth
- respect
- see sb right idiom
- smother
- spoil
- spoil sb rotten idiom
- succour
- treat
- treat sb like royalty idiom
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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Gardening - general words
Encouraging and urging on
nurture verb [ T ] (FOR A LONG TIME)
to have a particular emotion, plan, or idea for a long time:
Winifred nurtured ambitions for her daughter to be a surgeon.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Experiencing and suffering
- afflict
- affliction
- almost/nearly die of sth idiom
- be a martyr to sth idiom
- be a victim of your own success idiom
- be devoured by sth idiom
- get the short end of the stick idiom
- get/have your fingers burned idiom
- go through sth
- grip
- hands-on
- hold
- ride
- run into sth
- sample
- seat
- sense
- underwent
- ups and downs
- writhe
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nurturenoun [ U ]
uk/ˈnɜː.tʃər/us/ˈnɝː.tʃɚ/the way in which children are treated as they are growing, especially as compared with the characteristics they are born with:
Which do you believe has the strongest influence on how children develop - nature or nurture?
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Parenting & caring for children
- adopt
- adopted
- adoption
- adoptive
- attachment parenting
- bring sb up
- child-rearing
- childless
- childminder
- counsellor
- custodial
- non-custodial
- nursemaid
- nursery nurse
- one-parent family
- open adoption
- pediatrician
- upbringing
- visitation
- wean
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