nourish
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
provide with nourishment
We sustained ourselves on bread and water
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- nurturance derivation
- sustentation derivation
- nourishment derivation
- nutrient derivation
- sustainable derivation
Sense 2 verb
give nourishment to
Types & categories
- feed hypernym
Related & opposite
- food derivation
- nourishment derivation
- feeding derivation
- nourishment derivation
- nutrition derivation
- nutrient derivation
- alimentative derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | nurturance |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | sustentation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | nourishment |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | nutrient |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | sustainable |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | ply |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | carry |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | food |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | nourishment |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | feeding |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | nourishment |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | nutrition |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | nutrient |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | alimentative |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | feed |