/ English Dictionary

NOURISH

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide with nourishment

Example:

This kind of food is not nourishing for young children

Synonyms:

nourish; nurture; sustain

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "nourish" is one way to...):

cater; ply; provide; supply (give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "nourish"):

carry (be able to feed)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

nourishment (a source of materials to nourish the body)

nutrient (of or providing nourishment)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Give nourishment to

Synonyms:

aliment; nourish; nutrify

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "nourish" is one way to...):

feed; give (give food to)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

nourishment (the act of nourishing)

nutrient (of or providing nourishment)

Credits

 Context examples: 

"Me loves evvybody," she once said, opening her arms, with her spoon in one hand, and her mug in the other, as if eager to embrace and nourish the whole world.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The painful remembrance of the folly it had helped to nourish and perfect was the only emotion which could spring from a consideration of the building.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

It was a long, cruel chase, but he was better nourished than they, and in the end outran them.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

They surround and nourish developing sperm cells.

(Murine Sertoli Cells, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

His features were peaky and sallow, and his little pointed beard was thready and ill-nourished.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Tiny human blood vessels — known as capillaries- had developed inside the mice which nourished the new kidney structures.

(Scientists Create Functioning Kidney Tissue, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

And he could not help but contrast it with the weak pipings and shrill quaverings of factory girls, ill-nourished and untrained, and with the raucous shriekings from gin-cracked throats of the women of the seaport towns.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

On that subject poor Miss Bates was very unhappy, and very communicative; Jane would hardly eat any thing:—Mr. Perry recommended nourishing food; but every thing they could command (and never had any body such good neighbours) was distasteful.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Yet such must be the impression conveyed to you by what appears to be the purport of my actions. Yet I seek not a fellow feeling in my misery. No sympathy may I ever find. When I first sought it, it was the love of virtue, the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed, that I wished to be participated. But now that virtue has become to me a shadow, and that happiness and affection are turned into bitter and loathing despair, in what should I seek for sympathy? I am content to suffer alone while my sufferings shall endure; when I die, I am well satisfied that abhorrence and opprobrium should load my memory. Once my fancy was soothed with dreams of virtue, of fame, and of enjoyment. Once I falsely hoped to meet with beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding. I was nourished with high thoughts of honour and devotion. But now crime has degraded me beneath the meanest animal. No guilt, no mischief, no malignity, no misery, can be found comparable to mine. When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

That part of me which I had the power of projecting, had lately been much exercised and nourished; it had seemed to me of late as though the body of Edward Hyde had grown in stature, as though (when I wore that form) I were conscious of a more generous tide of blood; and I began to spy a danger that, if this were much prolonged, the balance of my nature might be permanently overthrown, the power of voluntary change be forfeited, and the character of Edward Hyde become irrevocably mine.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

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