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UK
/nˈʌɹɪʃɪŋ/
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[ US /ˈnɝɪʃɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈnɝɪʃɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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of or providing nourishment
good nourishing stew
How To Use nourishing In A Sentence
- Its nourishing shea butter formula also gives conditioning shine to lackluster locks.
- This is a wonderfully nourishing cake to take on a winter tramp or to a working bee.
- My father had always said that there are four things a child needs plenty of love, nourishing food, fegular sleep, and lots of soap and water---and after those, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect.
- The second function of music therapy is relaxation because the music can tranquilize the mind by nourishing the heart.
- Grants are made for warm clothing, heating bills, beds and bedding, nourishing foods, convalescent holidays, etc.
- This is a dry but nourishing oil derived from hazelnut and corn oils. Times, Sunday Times
- My father had always said that there are four things a child needs plenty of love, nourishing food, fegular sleep, and lots of soap and water---and after those, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect.
- The 160 technicians put in eight-hour shifts and the employees - from the plant director down - eat hearty, nourishing meals from the same, heavily subsidized menu.
- Like the person who gets fat because they eat unnourishing foods and so is always hungry and so is always eating, she drowned in words that could not teach her to swim. The Women’s Room
- The Esquimaux prefer it raw in these parts of the world (although some travellers assert that in more southern latitudes they prefer cooked meat), and with good reason, for it is much more nourishing than cooked flesh; and learned, scientific men, who have wintered in the Arctic regions, have distinctly stated that in those cold countries they found raw meat to be better for them than cooked meat, and they assure us that they at last came to _prefer_ it! The World of Ice