(usually used in simple past form "wanted") To feel appreciation for
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To care for and protect (someone or something) while they are growing
“We can only trust that parents will do their best to nurture their children to adulthood.”
To provide with nourishment
“The mother elephant would nurture her newborn with her milk.”
To help or encourage the growth or development of
“The challenge for parents is to nurture solid values in their children.”
To teach, train or educate in a given field
“She believes that reading religious texts will nurture her in spiritual ways.”
To strengthen or reaffirm in rank or position
To have or harbor in one's heart or mind
To teach, train or educate in a given field
(usually used in simple past form "wanted") To feel appreciation for
To hold on to or continue to have something, both physically or mentally
The action or process of nurturing or cultivating someone or something
“Children who've grown up without nurture may lack any sense that they can be something other than what they are.”
Upbringing, education, and environment, contrasted with inborn characteristics
“The human organism learns partly by nature, partly by nurture.”
The provision of food
“Here, you will find a camp where you can receive nurture and rest.”
Food, clothes, and other essentials for living
An innate need to nurture
The (measure of) gentility or social refinement of a person
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