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UK
/nˈʌɹɪʃmənt/
]
[ US /ˈnɝɪʃmənt/ ]
[ US /ˈnɝɪʃmənt/ ]
NOUN
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the act of nourishing
her nourishment of the orphans saved many lives - a source of materials to nourish the body
How To Use nourishment In A Sentence
- He took nourishment from press conferences, where he was notably generous, but not bountiful enough to promise a match.
- After a cut on the face or an exudation into the lungs, the loose tissues and multiple vessels allow the proliferating cells to obtain rich nourishment; absorption can take place readily, and the part regains its normal condition entirely, while a bruise at the heel or at the withers finds a dense, inextensible tissue where the multiplying elements and exuded fluids choke up all communication, and the parts die Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
- The link between a specific shoot and a specific root is not clear, but each has a part to play in the overall growth and nourishment of the plant.
- Now a common-place person would have been satisfied with the recommendation of the medical man, who looks but to the one thing needful, which is a sufficient and wholesome supply of nourishment for the child; but Mr Easy was a philosopher, and had latterly taken to craniology, and he descanted very learnedly with the Doctor upon the effect of his only son obtaining his nutriment from an unknown source. Mr. Midshipman Easy
- I'm proud of my baby body, knowing that it gave my son a comfy vessel in which to gestate and has been the source of all his nourishment since birth.
- Since you, the parent is the baby's primary source of physical and emotional nourishment, your well being can contribute to the presence or absence of colic.
- If this congestion is not cleared up quickly, the blood will clot and arteries that bring the tissues their necessary nourishment will become plugged and the tissues will die.
- Scrounging time for faith nourishment can press a doubter into drivenness—so that in our wild attempts to make the most of every minute of our time, we may lose eternity. If I Really Believe, Why Do I Have These Doubts?
- Art was hailed as an inner, ethical necessity, primary nourishment for the soul.
- The citizens, clearly, are the distributors of bodily nourishment, circulating their life-giving vigor even to the heart and foreclosing the possibility of that organ exercising arbitrary rule over the body.