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nurture
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  • I'll have to select the one to be nurtured, and the one to be released.  (source)
    nurtured = helped to develop and grow
  • Nature had nurtured, tutored, and protected her when no one else would.  (source)
    nurtured = helped to develop or grow
  • Peter has always been a husbandman of pain, planting it, nurturing it, devouring it greedily when it was ripe; better he should take it in these small, sharp doses than with dull cruelty to children in the school.  (source)
    nurturing = helping to develop or grow
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  • They cared for us, protected us, and nurtured us so that we could grow into the people God wants us to be.  (source)
    nurtured = helped to develop or grow
  • She knew the literature and so she knew that studies of the effects of environment and nurture on mental development tend to create two study groups, the haves and the have-nots.  (source)
    nurture = helping someone to develop as they grow -- such as feeding, loving, and teaching
  • We moved away, to a place outside the city, a small flat, where our lives were spent modestly, me tending to my wounded husband and silently nurturing a single wish.  (source)
    nurturing = helping develop
  • It's illogical that women, who are the bearers and nurturers of the human race, should go all out for ill will like this.†  (source)
  • It is someone who raises and nurtures you.†  (source)
    nurtures = helps to develop or grow
  • And the other Nurturer is his assistant.  (source)
    Nurturer = person whose job is to help others to develop and grow
  • The summons of the unnurtured squatter brought an immediate accession to their party.†  (source)
    unnurtured = not helped to develop or grow
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unnurtured means not and reverses the meaning of nurtured. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.  (source)
    nurtured = helped develop or grow
  • Nevertheless, in consideration of your youth and the ill nurture, devoid of all gentilesse and courtesy, which...  (source)
    nurture = help to develop
  • I know you worry that you're sometimes too distant, too removed, unable to be tender or nurturing.  (source)
    nurturing = helping another to develop or grow
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