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
Support is a synonym for nurse in nurture topic. In some cases you can use "Support" instead a verb "Nurse", when it comes to topics like tend, nourish.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| good | good nurse | good support |
| poor | poor nurse | poor support |
| real | real nurse | real support |
| great | great nurse | great support |
| Other adjectives: little, personal, new, local. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Blaze's mother in Blaze (or Love in the Time of Supervillains) works double-shifts as a nurse to support the family since Blaze's father left them.
Source: When You Coming Home, Dad? - As well as that, one episode revealed that the three non-CO doctors, the head nurse and the chaplain also pull double duty commanding vital support functions like sanitation and the mess tent
Source: Suspiciously Small Army - In Parks and Recreation, Ann Perkins is actually a good nurse, but her instinctive urge to take care of injured or helpless people leads her to support her lovable slacker ex-boyfriend Andy for far longer than she should.
Source: Nurse with Good Intentions
Cite this Source
Support and Nurse. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/nurse/support
Nurse & Support. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/nurse/support>.
Support or Nurse. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/nurse/support.
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