Nurse
Nurse verb - To attend to the needs and comforts of.
Usage example: willingly lent a hand to nurse his grandmother in her final years, helping her get from one room to the other and making sure she was warm
Spoil
Spoil verb - To treat with great or excessive care.
Usage example: when they were newlyweds, the wife tended to spoil her husband, but she soon got over that
Common collocations
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