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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tend; provide for |
| Synonyms: | administer, attend, board, care for, carry on, command, conduct, continue, defend, direct, endure, feed, foster, guard, look after, maintain, manage, mind, minister to, nourish, nurture, operate, ordain, protect, provision, run, safeguard, shelter, shield, subsidize, support, sustain, victual, watch over |
| Antonyms: | abandon, ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | maintenance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perpetuation, support; sustenance |
| Synonyms: | aliment, alimentation, alimony, allowance, bacon, bread, bread and butter, care, carrying, conservation, continuance, continuation, food, keep, keeping, livelihood, living, nurture, preservation, prolongation, provision, repairs, resources, retainment, salt, subsistence, supply, sustaining, sustainment, sustention, upkeep, wherewithal |
| Antonyms: | desertion, forsaking, ignorance, neglect |
| Main Entry: | nourish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | feed, care for |
| Synonyms: | attend, cherish, comfort, cultivate, encourage, foster, furnish, maintain, nurse, nurture, promote, provide, supply, support, sustain, tend |
| Antonyms: | abandon, deprive, neglect, starve |
| Main Entry: | nurse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | care for, tend |
| Synonyms: | advance, aid, attend, baby-sit, cherish, cradle, cultivate, encourage, father, feed, forward, foster, further, harbor, humor, immunize, indulge, inoculate, irradiate, keep alive, keep an eye on, keep tabs on, look after, medicate, minister to, mother, nourish, nurture, pamper, preserve, promote, see to, serve, sit, succor, support, take care of, take charge of, treat, vaccinate, wait on, watch out for, watch over |
| Antonyms: | ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | nurse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give milk, usually from breast |
| Synonyms: | bottle-feed, breast-feed, cradle, dry-nurse, feed, give suck, lactate, nourish, nurture, suck, suckle, wet-nurse |
| Main Entry: | promote |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | help, advance |
| Synonyms: | advertise, advocate, aid, assist, avail, back, befriend, benefit, bolster, boost, build up*, call attention to, champion, contribute, cooperate, cry*, develop, encourage, endorse, espouse, forward, foster, further, get behind, hype*, improve, nourish, nurture, patronize, plug*, popularize, propagandize, publicize, puff, push, push for, recommend, sell, serve, speak for, speed, sponsor, stimulate, subsidize, succor, support, uphold, urge, work for |
| Antonyms: | condemn, discredit, dishonor, hurt |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | raise young |
| Synonyms: | breed, bring up, care for, cultivate, educate, foster, grow, nurse, nurture, propagate, train |
| Notes: | one rears children and raises crops |
| Antonyms: | abandon, neglect |
| Main Entry: | regale |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | throw a party; have fun |
| Synonyms: | amuse, delight, divert, entertain, feast, fracture, give a party, grab, gratify, have a get-together, laugh it up, nurture, party, please, ply, refresh, satisfy, serve, toss a party |
| Main Entry: | subsistence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | provisions for survival |
| Synonyms: | affluence, aliment, alimentation, bread and butter, bread, capital, circumstances, competence, earnings, existence, food, fortune, gratuity, income, independence, keep, legacy, livelihood, living, maintenance, means, money, necessities, nurture, pension, property, provision, ration, resources, riches, salary, salt, substance, support, sustenance, upkeep, victuals, wages, wealth, wherewithal |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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