nourish🔊

(obsolete) A nurse.

To feed and cause to grow; to supply with food or other matter which increases weight and promotes health.

To support; to maintain; to be responsible for.

To encourage; to foster; to stimulate

To cherish; to comfort.

(of a person) To educate or bring up; to nurture; to promote emotional, spiritual or other non-physical growth.

To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.

(obsolete) To gain nourishment.