Back
Back verb - To promote the interests or cause of.
Nurse
Nurse verb - To help the growth or development of.
Usage example: her teachers did much to nurse her literary talent
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| human | human back | human nurse |
| old | old back | old nurse |
| female | female back | female nurse |
| short | short back | short nurse |
| Other adjectives: regular, actual, little, new, sexy. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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O'Dwyer is the town nurse and back-up doctor.
Source: Film / Bone Tomahawk - The women and Parvana nurse him back to health, and the novel ends with Parvana and her father escaping Afghanistan, hidden in the back of a truck.
Source: Literature / The Breadwinner - In The Valley of Horses Ayla finds Jondolar near death from a Cave Lion attack, and brings him back to her cave to nurse him back to health.
Source: I Found You Like This
Cite this Source
Nurse and Back. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/back/nurse
Back & Nurse. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/back/nurse>.
Nurse or Back. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/back/nurse.
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