Feed
Nurse
Nurse verb - To bring to maturity through care and education.
Usage example: as foster parents they accepted and nursed 16 needy children over the years
Feed is a synonym for nurse in activity topic. You can use "Feed" instead a verb "Nurse", if it concerns topics such as tend, sustain, breastfeed, breast-feed. popular alternative
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| human | human feed | human nurse |
| good | good feed | good nurse |
| short | short feed | short nurse |
| regular | regular feed | regular nurse |
| Other adjectives: plain, poor, large, young, private, new, former, insane, different, english. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Morris' basic idea is that lush, abundant feminine curves subconsciously suggest (1) good health, (2) an ability to bear children safely (it's known that women with wide hips have an easier time with childbirth) and (3) a superior ability to feed/nurse children.
Source: Real Women Have Curves -
With no help from anyone, she manages to feed herself, glamour a nurse into forgetting that she attacked her, and call Damon out for behaving so badly towards her, even flinging him down a hallway.
Source: Series / The Vampire Diaries -
When, grief-stricken, she refused to feed, the maid told Rodrigo that the child was refusing to feed from a wet nurse as he had 'gotten too used to his mother's breast.' Thus, it was Lucrezia or starvation.
Source: Series / The Borgias
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