nurse

nurse1 [ nɜrs ] noun count ***

1. ) someone who is trained to take care of sick or injured people, usually in a hospital

a ) someone who performs basic health checks and gives IMMUNIZATIONS at a doctor's SURGERY

2. ) OLD-FASHIONED a woman whose job is to take care of a young child: NANNY

nurse

nurse 2 [ nɜrs ] verb **

▸ 1 take care of sick person

▸ 2 help yourself get better

▸ 3 feel emotion

▸ 4 drink slowly

▸ 5 when baby sucks milk

1. ) intransitive or transitive to take care of someone who is sick or injured:

He nursed troops at the general hospital in Riyadh.

nurse someone back to health (=until they are healthy again): His wife nursed him back to health.

a ) to help someone or something improve or become more successful:

nurse something back to health: Chief executive David Michaels nursed the business back to health.

2. ) transitive to help yourself get better after an illness or injury, for example by resting or getting medical treatment:

I'm nursing a cold.

I took over as captain while she nursed a strained muscle.

3. ) transitive to feel a strong emotion or have a belief for a long time, especially one that you hide from other people:

He had nursed a grudge against them for ages.

Gilford still nurses an ambition to become captain of the team.

4. ) transitive if you nurse a drink, you drink it slowly over a period of time:

She stood nursing a glass of brandy.

5. ) transitive if a woman nurses a baby, she feeds it by letting the baby suck milk from her breasts: BREASTFEED

a ) intransitive if a baby nurses, it sucks milk from a woman's breast