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nurse
UK /nɵːs/ US /nɝs/
noun 6verb 5name 1
Definitions
noun
1
A person involved in providing direct care for the sick:
My aunt was my nurse while I recuperated at home from surgery.
2
A person involved in providing direct care for the sick:
The nurse made her rounds through the hospital ward.
Francis Urquhart: Right. Mackenzie. Health. No chance of getting him into a demo at a hospital, I suppose? Tim Stamper: Doesn't go to hospitals any more. Kept getting beaten up by the nurses... I think he has trouble getting insured now.
3
A person involved in providing direct care for the sick:
4
A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s children.
They hired a nurse to care for their young boy.
5
One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters.
Eton College has been called "the chief nurse of England's statesmen".
the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise
verb
1
To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle.
She believes that nursing her baby will make him strong and healthy.
2
To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast.
3
To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to.
She nursed him back to health.
4
To tend gently and with extra care.
She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed.
5
To manage or oversee (something) with care and economy.
noun
1
A nurse shark or dogfish.
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