Crossword-Solution: NOURISH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Nourish | v. t. | To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment. |
| Nourish | v. t. | To support; to maintain. |
| Nourish | v. t. | To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues. |
| Nourish | v. t. | To cherish; to comfort. |
| Nourish | v. t. | To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to promote the growth of in attainments. |
| Nourish | v. i. | To promote growth; to furnish nutriment. |
| Nourish | v. i. | To gain nourishment. |
| Nourish | n. | A nurse. |
We have 38 clues for the answer “NOURISH”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| We sustained ourselves on bread and water | 1 answer |
| Encourage to develop | 1 answer |
| Feed, sustain | 1 answer |
| Foster, support | 1 answer |
| Give a bite? | 1 answer |
| Give sustenance to | 1 answer |
| Keep healthy | 1 answer |
| Not starve | 1 answer |
| Nutrify | 1 answer |
| Offer water and light, say | 1 answer |
| Provide food to | 1 answer |
| Provide with food | 1 answer |
| Provide with materials for life and growth | 1 answer |
| Provide with sustenance | 2 answers |
| Give sustenance | 2 answers |
| GIVE substance | 2 answers |
| Keep ___ alive! | 12 answers |
| MAKE plump | 13 answers |
| Foster | 35 answers |
| Care for | 38 answers |
| prop up | 41 answers |
| eternalise | 44 answers |
| Provide | 45 answers |
| Bring up | 48 answers |
| "Feed __, ..." | 48 answers |
| Sustain. | 50 answers |
| Cherish | 50 answers |
| Nurture | 52 answers |
| Prize | 53 answers |
| revitalise | 53 answers |
| Promote | 54 answers |
| BRACE ___ | 59 answers |
| Nursemaid | 64 answers |
| Strengthen | 69 answers |
| Pursue | 69 answers |
| Boost | 75 answers |
| Build up | 76 answers |
| COMFORT ___ | 89 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with NOURISH (5)
Aire, and ye Elements the eldest birth Of Natures Womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual Circle, multiform; and mix And nourish all things, let your ceasless change Varie to our great Maker still new praise.
These growing thoughts my mother soon perceiving, By words at times cast forth, inly rejoiced, And said to me apart, ‘High are thy thoughts, O Son! but nourish them, and let them soar 230 To what highth sacred virtue and true worth Can raise them, though above example high; By matchless deeds express thy matchless Sire.
The great state only wishes to unite men together and nourish them; a small state only wishes to be received by, and to serve, the other.
But the reservations he at present insisted on, while they added to the mystery without which perhaps she would never have seriously loved him at all, were calculated to nourish doubts of all kinds, and with a slow flush of jealousy she asked herself, might he not be the culprit? Elfride glided downstairs on tiptoe, and out to the precise spot on which she had parted from Stephen to enable him to speak privately to her father.
When the sands on the sea-shore nourish Red clover and yellow corn; When figs on the thistle flourish, And grapes grow thick on the thorn; When the dead branch, blighted and blasted, Puts forth green leaves in the spring, Then the dream that life has outlasted Dead comfort to life may bring.
Quotes with NOURISH (3)
I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps. I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest, hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails, I want to eat your skin like a whole almond. I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body, the sovereign nose of your arrogant face, I want to eat the fleeting…
Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.
In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they do not love your flesh. They despise it. They don't love your eyes; they'd just as soon pick em out. No more do they love the skin on your back. Yonder they flay it. And O my people they do not love your hands. Those they only use, tie, bind, chop off and leave empty. Love your hands! Love them. Raise them up and kiss them. Touch others with them…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1986–2025).