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1. Help develop, help grow
   "nurture his talents"
   - foster
    
2. Provide for and care for during childhood
   - rear, raise, bring up, parent
    
3. Provide with nourishment
   - nourish, sustain

1. The properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
   - raising, rearing
    
2. Helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
   "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important"
   - breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, raising, rearing, upbringing

Derived forms: nurtured, nurturing, nurtures

See also: nurtural, nurturance

Type of: acculturation, cater, encourage, enculturation, ply, provide, socialisation [Brit], socialization, supply, upbringing

Encyclopedia: Nurture