a nurse is a form of:
Nurse
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- (LITERARY) គិលានុបដ្ឋាយិកា
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- (LITERARY) គិលានុបដ្ឋាក, children's nurse មេដោះ
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- (FRENCH) Male nurse អាំងហ្វីមីញ៉េរ
noun
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- (FRENCH) (One trained for care of sick or injured woman tending anthers child) female nurse អាំងហ្វីមីញ៉េរ
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- (បច្ចេកទេស) មើលថែទាំ, គិតច្រើនពី
verb — past tense: nursed ; past participle: nursed ; present participle: nursing ;
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- (TRANSITIVE) (to act as nurse to; to tend carefully; give special care to) nurse a child បំបៅ
Example: Makara nursed the sick puppy back to health, hospital nurse trained (graduate) nurse. nurse a patient ព្យាបាល, មើលថែរក្សា, nurse a project ជួយទ្រទ្រង់
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
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- 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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- One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.
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- A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place.
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- A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
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- Either one of the nurse sharks.
verb — past tense: nursed ; past participle: nursed ; present participle: nursing ;
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- (TRANSITIVE) To nourish; to cherish; to foster
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- (TRANSITIVE) To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants, animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by, attention.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does.