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Definitions of nurse
n. - One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm. ²
n. - One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like. ²
n. - A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place. ²
n. - A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia. ²
n. - Either one of the nurse sharks. ²
v. t. - To nourish; to cherish; to foster ²
v. t. - To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant. ²
v. t. - To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon. ²
v. t. - To bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants, animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by, attention. ²
v. t. - To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources. ²
v. t. - To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does. ²

The word "nurse" uses 5 letters: E N R S U.

Direct anagrams of nurse:
  runes

Words formed by adding one letter before or after nurse (in bold), or to enrsu in any order:
d -   nursed   sunder   e -   ensure   enures   i -   insure   inures   rusine   urines   ursine   m -   rumens   o -   rouens   p -   prunes   q -   querns   r -   nurser   reruns   s -   nurses   t -   tuners   unrest   u -   unsure   y -   senryu  

Shorter words found within nurse:
en   ens   er   ern   erns   ers   es   ne   nu   nus   re   res   rue   rues   run   rune   runs   ruse   sen   ser   sue   suer   sun   sure   un   uns   urn   urns   us   use   user  

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