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say it: nurs
nurse is a verb and noun meaning "try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury". It is pronounced /ˈnɝs/ — nurs. It carries 7 recorded senses.
try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury
“He nursed his cold with Chinese herbs”
medicine
serve as a nurse; care for sick or handicapped people
treat carefully
“He nursed his injured back by lying in bed several hours every afternoon”
“He nursed the flowers in his garden and fertilized them regularly”
one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nurse come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.