0 present participle of cherish
1 to love, protect, and care for someone or something that is important to you:
We shall not level them down by merely cherishing hopes which cannot be fulfilled.
We can make it efficient most of all by cherishing the spirit of the flying officer.
People are cherishing great ideas for the future of the world.
There is nothing like cherishing a forlorn hope.
I should like to believe that any cherishing done was real and had some depth.
There are many people who will go to the grave cherishing that feeling of affection and companionship of which they have been deprived.
It is no way of cherishing them, as my noble friend suggested, if one puts families to that expense and inconvenience.
I believe that what we have built over forty years was worth not only keeping alive but cherishing.
