nourish

Meanings

Noun

• A nurse.

Verb

• 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.
• To educate or bring up; to nurture; to promote emotional, spiritual or other non-physical growth.
• To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.
• To gain nourishment.

Origin

• From Middle English norischen, from Old French, stem of one of the conjugated forms of norrir, from Latin nutriō ("to suckle, feed, foster, nourish, cherish, preserve, support").