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nursing

/ˈnɝsɪŋ/noun2 syllables

Nursing means: nourishing at the breast.

Synonyms for nursing1

noun, as in nourishing at the breast

breast feeding

What does nursing mean?3

noun

1

nourishing at the breast

2

the work of caring for the sick or injured or infirm

3

the profession of a nurse

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with nursing?3

two syllables

cursing

three syllables

reversingrehearsing
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Nursing in a sentence

  • He fainted from the heat, but his wife's patient nursing brought him to.CM
  • Your mother is in a nursing home, isn't she?CK
  • Ziri volunteered to read for the elderly in the nursing home.Amastan
  • Our daughter is none the better because we've been nursing.unknown
  • Nursing insurance covers drawing up the care plan and other work supporting home nursing.fcbond
  • Elias sent his dad to a nursing home.Amastan
  • His broken health led them to put him in the nursing home.unknown
  • I think the hardest part of nursing is seeing lots of blood every day.unknown

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Forms of nursing

as a noun

plural
nursings