nourish

[Nour·ish]

When you nourish your imagination or your body, you give it what it needs to stay healthy and flourish (hey, that rhymes!).

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To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.

Verb
provide with nourishment; "We sustained ourselves on bread and water"; "This kind of food is not nourishing for young children"

Verb
give nourishment to


v. t.
To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.

v. t.
To support; to maintain.

v. t.
To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues.

v. t.
To cherish; to comfort.

v. t.
To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to promote the growth of in attainments.

v. i.
To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.

v. i.
To gain nourishment.

n.
A nurse.


Nourish

Nour"ish , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nourished ; p. pr. & vb. n. Nourishing.] [OE. norisen, norischen, OF. nurir, nurrir, norir, F. norrir, fr. L. nutrire. Cf. Nurse, Nutriment, and see -ish.] 1. To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.
He planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
2. To support; to maintain.
Whiles I in Ireland nourish a mighty band.
3. To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues. "Nourish their contentions." Hooker. 4. To cherish; to comfort.
Ye have nourished your hearts.
5. To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to promote the growth of in attainments. Chaucer.
Nourished up in the words of faith.
Syn. -- To cherish; feed; supply. See Nurture.

Nourish

Nour"ish, v. i. 1. To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.
Grains and roots nourish more than their leaves.
2. To gain nourishment. [R.] Bacon.

Nourish

Nour"ish, n. A nurse. [Obs.] Hoolland.

To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.

To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.

A nurse.

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Usage Examples

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

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Other Usage Examples

Seeds of faith are always within us sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn't nourish the body - or the soul.

Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.

I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to, even if you, you know, are going to have to go without a cup of coffee or even a meal, that that should nourish you.

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