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dry nurse
verb as in nurse
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Example Sentences
With a Konigseck to dry-nurse him, may not Royal Highness, luck favoring, do very well?
I am not going to dry-nurse a girl at the age of fifty-four.
You'll be a dry nurse to a burro, and keep a hospital for infirm puppies, but you will fight game cocks.
Nothing could be more amusing than the solemnity with which the youngster performs his function of dry nurse.
My dry-nurse never desires anything of me that is not reasonable, and for my own good; and therefore I like to be with him.
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On this page you'll find 15 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dry-nurse, such as: cradle, feed, nourish, lactate, nurture, and suck.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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