to nurse
60
2.3
- verb
- /nɜrs/
:
cuidar
- After her surgery, the nurses worked hard to nurse her back to health.
- nurse back to health
- nurse the sick
- nurse a wound
I get to right now, I'm actually nursing a torn tricep.
- I get to right now, I'm actually nursing a torn tricep.
- And this was from a palliative nurse who would nurse people in their dying days.
- I plant a seed and I tend it and nurse it and I watch it grow.
- They're they're very, they're women very committed to nursing their toddlers.
- But nurse you back to health.
- And in their senescence you're going to nurse them through as the neck gets a little weak on the stem.
- So I went home, I think after three days, and I went home and, you know, continue trying to nurse her.
- But I had a rough go of it in terms of nursing bill for a good several months.
Examples
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You see, I found this stray dog in the park yesterday, and apparently it got sick, so I gotta go home right now and nurse it back to health.
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They have rescued thousands of dogs, plus cats and horses too, and nurse them back to health.
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But nurse you back to health.
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So they can nurse me along till I get back on my feet?
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I plant a seed and I tend it and nurse it and I watch it grow.
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I nursed her back to health.
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So I brought him back to the compound... nursed him back to health...
Fiction book (1990) -
So this person went off to war and came back with PTSD and Brittany nursed him back to health.
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In a montage of two-shots, the young Reid, who becomes the Ranger, nurses the Indian boy back to health.
Academic text (2013) -
He took time off work to nurse his sick dog and help it recover.
Synonyms
347
1.0
Look after a sick or injured person and give them needed help
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 Caring
Surface Forms
Etymology
Nurse as a verb comes from an old word meaning 'to feed' or 'help grow', like nurture. So to nurse an injury or plant is to give careful care so it can heal or grow.