Synonyms of the word

nourish

• n. (obsolete) A nurse.
• v. To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes…
• v. To support; to maintain.
• v. To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster.
• v. To cherish; to comfort.
• v. To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to promote the growth of in attainments.
• v. To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To gain nourishment.

aliment

• n. (now rare) Food.
• n. (figuratively) Nourishment, sustenance.
• n. (Scotland) An allowance for maintenance; alimony.
• v. (obsolete) To feed, nourish.
• v. To sustain, support.

cater

• v. (transitive) To provide food professionally for a special occasion.
• v. (transitive, often with to) To provide things to satisfy a person or a need, to serve.
• n. (obsolete) A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.
• v. (obsolete) To cut diagonally.
• n. (card games, dice games) The four of cards or dice.

feed

• v. (transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
• v. (intransitive) To eat (usually of animals).
• v. (transitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
• v. (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.
• v. (figuratively) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
• v. To supply with something.
• v. To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
• v. (sports, transitive) To pass to.
• v. (phonology, of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply.
• n. (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
• n. Something supplied continuously.
• n. The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
• n. (countable) A gathering to eat, especially in quantity.
• n. (Internet) Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of fee.

give

• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or…
• v. (transitive, may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
• v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
• v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
• v. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
• v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
• v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
• v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
• v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
• v. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
• v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
• v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout,…
• v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
• v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
• v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
• v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
• v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
• v. To be going on, to be occurring.
• n. (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.

nurture

• n. The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training.
• n. That which nourishes; food; diet.
• n. The environmental influences that contribute to the development of an individual; see also nature.
• v. To nourish or nurse.
• v. (figuratively, by extension) To encourage, especially the growth or development of something.

nutrify

• v. To supply nutrients (to).

ply

• n. A layer of material.
• n. A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up yarn or rope.
• n. (colloquial) Plywood.
• n. (artificial intelligence, game theory) In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn", or one move made…
• n. (now chiefly Scotland) State, condition.
• v. (transitive) To bend; to fold.
• v. (intransitive) To flex.
• v. (transitive) To work at diligently.
• v. (intransitive) To work diligently.
• v. (transitive) To use vigorously.
• v. (transitive) To travel over regularly.
• v. (transitive) To persist in offering something to.
• v. (transitive) To press upon; to urge importunately.
• v. (transitive) To employ diligently; to use steadily.
• v. (nautical) To work to windward; to beat.

provide

• v. To make a living; earn money for necessities.
• v. To act to prepare for something.
• v. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
• v. To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
• v. To furnish (with), cause to be present.
• v. To make possible or attainable.
• v. (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
• v. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.

supply

• v. (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
• v. (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
• v. (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
• v. (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
• v. (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
• v. (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office;…
• n. (uncountable) The act of supplying.
• n. (countable) An amount of something supplied.
• n. (in the plural) provisions.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual…
• n. Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
• adv. Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.

sustain

• n. (music) A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.
• v. (transitive) To maintain, or keep in existence.
• v. (transitive) To provide for or nourish.
• v. (transitive) To encourage (something).
• v. (transitive) To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To confirm, prove, or corroborate.
• v. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
• v. To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.