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Definitioner
Substantiv
- (archaic) A wet-nurse.
- A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young.
- A person trained to provide care for the sick.
- One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.
- (nautical) A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
- A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
- A nurse shark.
Verb
- to breast feed
- to care for the sick
- to treat kindly and with extra care
- to drink slowly
- to foster, to nourish
- to hold closely to one's chest
- to strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots
Exempel
- They hired a nurse to care for their young boy
- The nurse made her rounds through the hospital ward
- the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise
- She believes that nursing her baby will make him strong and healthy.
- She nursed him back to health.
- She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed.
- Would you like to nurse the puppy?
- It is to our interest to let Lee and Johnston come together, just as a billiard-player would nurse the balls when he has them in a nice place.
- No mother could have nursed an only child more devotedly than Edgar tended her. (Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë)
- Jamais mère n’eût pu entourer son enfant unique de soins plus dévoués que ceux qu’Edgar lui prodigua.
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