nourish
/ˈnʌɹ.ɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.90 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To feed and cause to grow; to supply with food or other matter which increases weight and promotes health.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "He planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it."
- "other carnivorous Animals are difficultly nourished by Plants alone"
- "Children nourished exclusively upon this simple food will be found to enjoy more perfect health"
- "we have ample evidence that male Bobolinks do not shirk the labor of nourishing their families. In a four-year study, Wittenberger (1980, 1982) found that males delivered about 60 Bobolink percent of the food."
- "I in Ireland nourish a mighty band."
- "to nourish civility"
Etymology
From Middle English norischen, from Old French nouriss-, stem of one of the conjugated forms of norrir, from Latin nutriō (“to suckle, feed, foster, nourish, cherish, preserve, support”).