Meaning & use
nurse
A person trained to care for the sick or injured, often working under a doctor's supervision.
See it in a sentence
The nurse checked his blood pressure before the doctor arrived.
She has worked as a pediatric nurse for over fifteen years.
A note on using this word
As a verb, "nurse" means to care for someone who is ill or, for a mother, to breastfeed a baby.
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Another way to use it
2. verb
To care for a sick or injured person, or to feed a baby at the breast.
She nursed her grandmother back to health after the surgery.
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