Synonyms for nourish
ˈnɜr ɪʃ, ˈnʌr-nour·ish

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1. nourish

   To cherish is both to hold dear and to treat as dear. Mere unexpressed esteem would not be cherishing. In the marriage vow, "to love, honor, and cherish," the word cherish implies all that each can do by love and tenderness for the welfare and happiness of the other, as by support, protection, care in sickness, comfort in sorrow, sympathy, and help of every kind. To nurse is to tend the helpless or feeble, as infants, or the sick or wounded. To nourish is strictly to sustain and build up by food; to nurture includes careful mental and spiritual training, with something of love and tenderness; to foster is simply to maintain and care for, to bring up; a foster-child will be nourished, but may not be as tenderly nurtured or as lovingly cherished as if one's own. In the figurative sense, the opinion one cherishes he holds, not with mere cold conviction, but with loving devotion.

   See synonyms for ABANDON; CHASTEN.

   Synonyms:
   cheer, cherish, cling to, comfort, encourage, entertain, foster, harbor, hold dear, nurse, nurture, protect, shelter, treasure, value

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1. nourish

   Synonyms:
   nurture, fed, foster, cherish, nurse, tend, support, promote

   Antonyms:
   starve blight, destroy, kill, wither

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1. nourish, nurture, sustainverb

   provide with nourishment

   "We sustained ourselves on bread and water"; "This kind of food is not nourishing for young children"

   Synonyms:
   have, suffer, keep up, keep, nurture, support, hold up, hold, sustain, bring up, confirm, foster, nutrify, rear, aliment, get, corroborate, maintain, substantiate, affirm, raise, prolong, parent

2. nutrify, aliment, nourishverb

   give nourishment to

   Synonyms:
   aliment, nutrify, sustain, nurture

Matched Categories

1. • Feed
   • Supply

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1. nourishverb

   Synonyms:
   nurture, nurse, feed, support, maintain, supply with food or nutriment, furnish sustenance to

2. nourishverb

   Synonyms:
   train, educate, instruct, breed, bring up

3. nourishverb

   Synonyms:
   cherish, encourage, foster, promote, succor

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1. nourishverb

   Synonyms:
   feed, nurture, support, encourage, foster, cherish, promote

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1. List of paraphrases for "nourish":

   feed

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1. Nicola Triscott:

   Once their basic needs are fulfilled, they need to nourish their spirit, their self-esteem and their pride in themselves, i think hip-hop really helps to do that, because it's such a young person's art form -- it came off the streets and it's about one-on-one teaching. There's this great spirit of sharing in hip hop.

2. Lauren Bauer:

   It’s terrifying to think that you aren’t going to be able to nourish your infant, if you see a single hole on a formula shelf when you go, you remember that.

3. Woodrow Wilson:

   We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

4. Martin Luther:

   A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.

5. Jeffrey Vlaming:

   Dateline Mesopotamia, 3500 B.C. That's when the multi-faceted sounds we call music got its humble beginnings. It seems clappers were sent out the the fields to scare evil spirits away. These clappers started getting into the beat of their duty and, bingo, you got drums. From there, horns, strings, reeds, the whole orchestral gestalt. So, born in staving off death, music continues to nourish us in a variety of forms as different as the colors of the spectrum.