Thesaurus / mothering
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synonyms for mothering
- cradle
- feed
- keep an eye on
- look after
- nourish
- take care of
- vaccinate
- advance
- aid
- attend
- baby-sit
- cherish
- cultivate
- encourage
- father
- forward
- foster
- further
- harbor
- humor
- immunize
- indulge
- inoculate
- irradiate
- medicate
- mother
- nurture
- pamper
- preserve
- promote
- serve
- sit
- succor
- support
- treat
- keep alive
- keep tabs on
- minister to
- see to
- take charge of
- wait on
- watch out for
- watch over
- beget
- breed
- conceive
- create
- engender
- father
- generate
- get
- hatch
- impregnate
- make
- mother
- multiply
- originate
- parent
- produce
- proliferate
- propagate
- sire
- spawn
- give birth to
- progenerate
- inseminate
- multiply
- proliferate
- bear
- beget
- engender
- father
- fecundate
- fertilize
- generate
- grow
- impregnate
- increase
- mother
- originate
- procreate
- produce
- raise
- sire
- make pregnant
- breed
- hatch
- multiply
- proliferate
- propagate
- spawn
- bear
- beget
- engender
- father
- fecundate
- generate
- impregnate
- mother
- procreate
- sire
- produce young
- progenerate
- repopulate
- create
- generate
- father
- hatch
- issue
- make
- mother
- originate
- parent
- procreate
- reproduce
- sire
- bring forth
- give rise to
antonyms for mothering
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How to use mothering in a sentence
In other words, the gap in mothering time may be shrinking between less-educated and well-educated moms.
THE GAP IN PARENTING TIME BETWEEN MIDDLE- AND WORKING-CLASS MOMS HAS SHRUNKSUJATA GUPTAJULY 9, 2021SCIENCE NEWSThey gave birth and then were thrown into mothering as if it were a journey that one should be forced to embark on all alone.
THE PROBLEM WITH CELEBRATING THE SELFLESSNESS OF MOTHERSANNA MALAIKA TUBBSMAY 7, 2021TIMEHe was a boy of eighteen, aching over his first love affair; and she was divinely mothering him.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODFor behind the mothering words lurked, he knew, the other self that any minute would return.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODAnd a hint of mothering contentment stole sweetly over him behind this shadowy yet genuine consolation.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODShe smiled lazily as she reflected that he would take to mothering; his curly hair begged to be smoothed and tousled.
MOUNTAINCLEMENT WOODThe little maid repaid him with a passionate love and a quaint mothering care tender and infinitely comforting to the lonely man.
THE MAJORRALPH CONNORThe leveret was now full-grown, and Nature's mothering instincts were strong within her.
CREATURES OF THE NIGHTALFRED W. REESThe mothering instinct, which makes every woman see in every man a child to be soothed and petted, rose within her.
A SON OF PERDITIONFERGUS HUME"Ruined by too much mothering and fathering" is a verdict we would frequently render if we knew the facts.
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