nourishment

noun

nour·ish·ment | \ ˈnər-ish-mənt ,

ˈnə-rish- \

Definition of nourishment

1a : food, nutriment

b : sustenance sense 3 books for intellectual nourishment

2 : the act of nourishing : the state of being nourished

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Synonyms for nourishment

Synonyms

food, pabulum, sustenance

Examples of nourishment in a Sentence

These children are suffering because they lack proper nourishment. Soil provides nourishment to plants.

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Halsey also is also using a feeding tube to get nourishment with the broken jaw, EDC said. — John Tuohy, Indianapolis Star, "Severely beaten puppy pulled from Indy home, arrest made," 27 Jan. 2018 Voilá: a movie that will satisfy your deepest craving for eye candy without a shred of nourishment. — Michael O’sullivan, kansascity, "In ‘Skyscraper,’ Dwayne Johnson’s charisma elevates a dumb movie," 12 July 2018 Another and no less important ingredient to that success is the understanding that meals can provide more than just nourishment. — Houston Chronicle, "Luby’s Kitchen Table," 27 June 2018 Its warm yellow glow, a beacon of hope and salvation, inviting the hungry, the lost, the seriously hammered all across the South to come inside, a place of safety and nourishment. — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, "Watch Anthony Bourdain's First Meal at Waffle House: "It Is Indeed Marvelous"," 13 June 2018 There’s also the fact that a lack of sleep and steady nourishment can heighten our awareness of these strange, subliminal connections. — Justin Chang, latimes.com, "Cannes delivers a triumph with Lee Chang-dong’s slow-‘Burning’ masterwork," 18 May 2018 But that wouldn't provide much nourishment and oversimplifies eating into one silly number. — Cara Rosenbloom, chicagotribune.com, "Ignore calories and BMI. Here are the health numbers that really matter.," 9 July 2018 The global population is still growing too, so more people are going to have fewer crops to eat, and the food itself will provide less nourishment. — Umair Irfan, Vox, "The weird power of rising carbon dioxide to make rice less nutritious," 24 May 2018 Providing the musical nourishment are some of the area’s finest organists and baroque music specialists, like local organ superstar Jan Kraybill and harpsichordist Rebecca Bell. — Patrick Neas, kansascity, "Bachathon makes an early appearance in a new venue this year | The Kansas City Star," 13 Apr. 2018

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