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Nursing

noun

The work of caring for the sick or injured or infirm.

The profession of a nurse.

Nourishing at the breast. Synonym: breast feeding.

Nurse

verb

(past & past part. nursed; pres. part. nursing)

Try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury.

Maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings). Synonyms: entertain, harbor, harbour, hold. "Entertain interesting notions" , "Harbor a resentment"

Serve as a nurse; care for sick or handicapped people.

Treat carefully. "He nursed the flowers in his garden and fertilized them regularly"

Give suck to. Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, lactate, suck, suckle, wet-nurse. "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places" Antonym: bottlefeed.

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"Nursing" Quotes from Famous Books

... is possible when you give a sound man twenty-four hours a day in our hills for a few years," he added. "Thanks to your nursing he's going to shave through by the narrowest margin possible. I told him to-day that he owed his life to ...

— Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West • William MacLeod Raine

... was greatly moved at the heroic stand Jessie Bain proposed to take in nursing her rival back ...

— Kidnapped at the Altar - or, The Romance of that Saucy Jessie Bain • Laura Jean Libbey

... feebly till it found that of his friend. A few minutes later he died, still holding the strong warm hand of the man who was nursing him. ...

— Oh, You Tex! • William Macleod Raine

... storm, but she won't do for harbour duty. But the fact is, you're all wrong there, Jack: it's the babbies I likes—I likes to see them both together, hanging at the niggers' breasts, I always think of two spider-monkeys nursing two kittens.' ...

— The Pirate and The Three Cutters • Frederick Marryat

... well as in making pins' heads, or in nursing sick people, or in cutting square blocks out of a chalk pit for thirty years together, or in any other occupation which may be ordained to prove to us that happiness lies in the temper, and not in the object of a pursuit? ...

— Deerbrook • Harriet Martineau

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