0 past simple and past participle of nourish
1 to provide people or living things with food in order to make them grow and keep them healthy:
For example, provided there is enough food, choosing to be well nourished would seem easier to achieve than choosing to be happy.
But he stood firm, nourished by a love of country which gave strength.
The captivity accounts reproduce similar images of the ' barbarian other ', representations nourished as much by ignorance as by prejudice.
The related troubles talk nourished the community, anchored in these two visible members, whose biographical particulars signalled a very visible identity.
This rather unusual philosophical melange, nourished by personal and intellectual impressions, was likely to offend the champions of philosophical orthodoxy.
All these studies, however, have been carried out using adequately nourished, healthy rats as hosts.
As has been shown earlier, this großdeutsche idea had already been nourished by historians in the 1920s.
The flesh became nourishment for the body, while the skin or feathers nourished the spirit.
