NURSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nursed mean? 

• NURSED (adjective)
  The adjective NURSED has 1 sense:

1. (of an infant) breast-fed

  Familiarity information: NURSED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NURSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of an infant) breast-fed

Synonyms:

nursed; suckled

Similar:

breast-fed ((of an infant) fed milk from the mother's breast)

 Context examples 

You will find my sister in his room, for she has nursed him hand-and-foot this two months back.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And how he provides now for an old woman who nursed his mother, and never tells anyone, but is just as generous and patient and good as he can be.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Nursed her as a baby, and came with her to England when they first left Australia, eighteen months ago.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Indeed, Mrs Harville and I quite agree that we love her the better for having nursed her.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I nursed my eye and was silent.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He must be nursed as you would nurse a human being, a sick child.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

After that, she took the baby out of its little cradle, and nursed it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mercedes nursed a special grievance—the grievance of sex.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

For the sake of a few jewels, to have murdered the son of her benefactor and friend, a child whom she had nursed from its birth, and appeared to love as if it had been her own!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

After being nursed up at Mansfield, it was too late in the day to be hardened at Portsmouth; and though Sir Thomas, had he known all, might have thought his niece in the most promising way of being starved, both mind and body, into a much juster value for Mr. Crawford's good company and good fortune, he would probably have feared to push his experiment farther, lest she might die under the cure.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)