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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : nur-cher |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈnɜr tʃər |
Definition of nurtured
Origin :- "to feed or nourish," early 15c., from nurture (n.). Related: Nurtured; nurturing.
- verb feed, care for
- Leila, thou hast been nurtured with tenderness, and schooled with care.
- Extract from : « Leila, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Gone with the little courts that nurtured them—gone with Esterhazy and Weimar.
- Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster
- We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.
- Extract from : « Scaramouche » by Rafael Sabatini
- They had to be nurtured and upheld, no matter how the contacts of life hit his own skin.
- Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown
- Nor had the inner man been nurtured any better than the outer.
- Extract from : « On the Heels of De Wet » by The Intelligence Officer
- Monopolies of this kind are begotten by fraud and nurtured by error.
- Extract from : « Sophisms of the Protectionists » by Frederic Bastiat
- Under their hard shells there is imagination that has been nurtured in long, long thoughts.
- Extract from : « Blow The Man Down » by Holman Day
- He had lived with it, nurtured it, clipped it, groomed it—for thirty-two years.
- Extract from : « The Friendly Road » by (AKA David Grayson) Ray Stannard Baker
- Missolonghi nurtured the poet in his youth and led him to the threshold of manhood.
- Extract from : « Life Immovable » by Kostes Palamas
- And that love of his was nurtured and sustained by the most generous thoughts.
- Extract from : « Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf » by George W. M. Reynolds
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