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Nurse

One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm.

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Verb group 2

Suck 84% connected

To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressur…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Suck 84% connected

To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressur…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Narrower term 7

Accoucheuse 76% connected

A midwife.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Dry nurse 76% connected

A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; -- in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Mammy 76% connected

A child's name for mamma, mother.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Matron 76% connected

A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Midwife 76% connected

A woman who assists other women in childbirth; a female practitioner of the obstetric art.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Probationer 76% connected

One who is undergoing probation; one who is on trial; a novice.

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Wet nurse 76% connected

A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman. Cf. Dry nurse.

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Broader term 9

Care 76% connected

A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Experience 76% connected

Trial, as a test or experiment.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Feed 76% connected

of Fee

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Feel 76% connected

To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Give 76% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Handle 76% connected

To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Keeper 76% connected

One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Treat 76% connected

To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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Woman 76% connected

An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 6

Nursemaid 74% connected

A girl employed to attend children.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Nursemaid 74% connected

A girl employed to attend children.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Nurser 74% connected

One who nurses; a nurse; one who cherishes or encourages growth.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Nurser 74% connected

One who nurses; a nurse; one who cherishes or encourages growth.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Nursing 74% connected

of Nurse

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Nursing 74% connected

of Nurse

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Synonym 9

Bear 92% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Entertain 92% connected

To be at the charges of; to take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbor; to keep.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Harbor 92% connected

A station for rest and entertainment; a place of security and comfort; a refuge; a shelter.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hold 92% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Lactate 92% connected

A salt of lactic acid.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Nanny 92% connected

A diminutive of Ann or Anne, the proper name.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Nursemaid 92% connected

A girl employed to attend children.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Suck 92% connected

To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressur…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Suckle 92% connected

A teat.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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