Nourish

  • 131nurse — nurse1 W3S3 [nə:s US nə:rs] n ↑stethoscope [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: nurice, from Latin nutricius; NUTRITIOUS] 1.) someone whose job is to look after people who are ill or injured, usually in a hospital ▪ The nurse is coming to give …

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  • 132old — [OE] Etymologically, old means ‘grown up’. It comes from a prehistoric West Germanic *altha (source also of German alt and Dutch oud) which was a past participial adjective formed from the base of a verb meaning ‘grow, nourish’. (A precisely… …

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