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DRY-NURSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dry-nurse mean?
• DRY-NURSE (verb)
The verb DRY-NURSE has 1 sense:
1. take care of an infant without breastfeeding it
Familiarity information: DRY-NURSE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Take care of an infant without breastfeeding it
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Hypernyms (to "dry-nurse" is one way to...):
care; give care (provide care for)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
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