renourishment
- noun
- /ˌriːˈnʌrɪʃmənt/
- The patient required careful renourishment after suffering from severe malnutrition.
Examples
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Proper renourishment is essential for children recovering from illness or neglect.
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Veterinarians focused on renourishment to help the rescued animals recover their strength.
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The patient requires renourishment after weeks of illness.
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Proper renourishment is essential for recovery.
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The patient required careful renourishment after suffering from severe malnutrition.
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Veterinarians focused on renourishment to help the rescued animals recover their strength.
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Proper renourishment is essential for children recovering from illness or neglect.
Synonyms
Food and drink needed for growth and health
A planned time when you eat more food after dieting
Careful, slow return to eating after a long time without food to help a person recover
Antonyms
How Nourished
Surface Forms
Morphology
renourishment = nourishment (transparent) = re + nourish + ment
The prefix 're-' attaches productively to 'nourishment' to mean nourishment again or restoration of nourishment.
Etymology
Renourishment comes from re- meaning 'again' and nourish meaning 'to feed or give strength'. So, for a person or animal, renourishment is giving food or nutrients again to help them get healthy and strong, the same root you see in nutrition.