Keep and Nurse

Keep

Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.

Nurse and keep are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Nurse" instead a verb "Keep".

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

Nurse

Nurse verb - To keep in one's mind or heart.
Usage example: he continues to nurse a tender affection for his first girlfriend

Keep and nurse are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Keep" instead a verb "Nurse".

Nearby Words: nursed, nursery, nursing, nurseling

How words are described

sweet sweet keep sweet nurse
human human keep human nurse
old old keep old nurse
good good keep good nurse
Other adjectives: short, regular, actual, great, black, cute, private, personal, unofficial.

Common collocations

baby keep baby nurse baby
people keep people nurse people
children keep children nurse children
sister keep sister nurse sister

Both words in one sentence

  • The unofficial nurse's motto: "Be kind to your nurse — we keep the doctor from accidentally killing you."
    Source: Ensign Newbie
  • Literature / One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The nurse in the Disturbed Ward actually tries to keep patients there longer to keep them away from Ratched.
  • Series / Being Human (US) Vegetarian Vampire - Aidan's job as a nurse gives him access to donated blood, which is enough to keep him going (though, as he tells a new vampire, bagged blood "tastes like ass").
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