to nurse
54
2.3
- verb
- /nɜrs/
:
amamantar
- Early one Sabbath morning, I nursed my baby, enjoying the quiet.
- nurse a baby
- nursing mothers
- nurse an infant
Like I have to have to nurse my baby.
- Like I have to have to nurse my baby.
- For some people that just come supernaturally and you know, you're like, there you are a cave woman with your child and they nurse and everything's wonderful.
- So anything that you know, that has a live birthright and nurses, it's young.
- I wondered how you just knew to latch on after nurse now now jiu jitsu you into a onesie.
Examples
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The woman had birthed her baby and was nursing it, while her prior child watched.
Fiction book (1994) -
The cubs played with each other, nursed, and dined on salmon within 100 feet of us.
Academic text (2003) -
Like I have to have to nurse my baby.
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So normally we would like bring the baby in and they would nurse, put them back to bed kind of thing.
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I prefer to nurse the child myself.
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I like to let my baby determine how long he likes to nurse.
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The women had moved the queen to the bed, and she lay nursing her son.
Fiction book (1993) -
At fourteen months, she is still nursing once or twice a day.
Fiction book (1995) -
She's still nursing the baby on account of... we can't afford milk for the family.
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She decided to nurse her baby exclusively for the first six months.
Synonyms
85
2.5
To feed a baby or young animal with milk from its mother
23
2.6
Give a baby milk directly from the mother's breast
19
5.5
To drink milk from a mother's breast or an animal's udder
6
6.2
To produce and give milk to a baby or young animal
1
9.8
To feed a baby or young animal from the breast
1
8.3
To feed another person's baby with her own milk and care for it
Compounds
- Specialized
19
2.8
A trained health worker who cares for sick people and has official permission to work
- Specialized
14
3.8
A health worker with extra training who can find and treat illnesses
3
2.7
A person who has studied health care and gives medical help in hospitals or clinics
2
6.3
A slow shark that lives on warm shallow sea floors and has small whiskers near its mouth
- Specialized
2
3.9
A hospital worker who helps the surgeon during surgery by keeping things sterile and handing instruments
- Specialized
1
3.8
A trained health worker who cares for women in pregnancy and helps them give birth
- Specialized
1
3.6
A trained health worker who gives basic care to sick people under a senior health worker
- Specialized
1
3.5
A trained health worker allowed by the state to give basic medical care under a doctor or senior medical worker
- Specialized
A person who finished nursing school training but is not yet licensed to work as a nurse
- Formal
The way a nurse and a patient work together, with the nurse trying to help and protect the patient's health
A trained health worker who is registered and can do many tasks doctors usually do
How Weaned
Surface Forms
Etymology
Nurse meaning 'to feed a baby' comes from that old word for 'to feed' or 'nourish', which is also in nourish and nutrition. So to nurse a baby is to give it milk and help it grow strong.