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NURSE

5 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

NURSE is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

NURSES-s 3 NOURICE 5 NURSING 5 NURSED-d 3

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NURSINGS 11
noun
  1. informalAnyone performing this role, regardless of training or profession.
    • My aunt was my nurse while I recuperated at home from surgery.
  2. A medical worker performing this role, typically someone trained to provide such care but having credentials and rank below a doctor or physician assistant.
    • The nurse made her rounds through the hospital ward.
  3. A medical worker, such as a registered nurse, having training, credentials, and rank above a nurse assistant.
  4. A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s children.
    • They hired a nurse to care for their young boy.
  5. figurativelyOne who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters.
    • Eton College has been called "the chief nurse of England's statesmen".
  6. A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.
  7. A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
  8. A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
  9. archaicA wet nurse.
  10. A nurse shark or dogfish.
verb
  1. transitiveTo breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle.
    • She believes that nursing her baby will make him strong and healthy.
  2. intransitiveTo breastfeed: to be fed at the breast.
  3. transitiveTo care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to.
    • She nursed him back to health.
  4. transitiveTo tend gently and with extra care.
    • She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed.
  5. transitiveTo manage or oversee (something) with care and economy.
  6. informaltransitiveTo drink (a beverage) slowly, so as to make it last.
    • Rob was nursing a small beer.
  7. figurativelytransitiveTo cultivate or persistently entertain (an attitude, usually negative) in one's mind; to brood or obsess over.
    • to nurse a grudge
    • to nurse a grievance
  8. transitiveTo hold closely to one's chest.
    • Would you like to nurse the puppy?
  9. transitiveTo strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots.