MOTHERED Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

mothered

verb

past tense of mother

as in had

to bring forth from the womb I hope to mother at least one child

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as in nursed

to attend to the needs and comforts of mothered the patients with chicken soup

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Recent Examples of mothered The new cub's arrival marks the first time Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium has had a lion birth since July 2020, when lioness Abana mothered three cubs. — Finch Walker, USA Today, 17 June 2026 My mother lost her own mother at 14 and was never fully mothered back to wholeness. — Eli Raphael, PEOPLE, 10 May 2026 Perhaps pasta or pizza with cheese is so comforting because we’re literally being mothered by flowering plants and bovines? — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026 One way to combat that, as a gardener, is to start plants by seed instead of buying plants that someone else has started, watered and mothered for months. — Henry Homeyer, The Providence Journal, 13 Mar. 2026 During the foster season, officials move captive pups into existing litters where they can be mothered by wild wolves. — Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 23 Jan. 2026

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While Eddie and the singer famously had their disagreements, Roth paid tribute to his bandmate after the guitarist’s death.

— Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Aug. 2026
Farinacci had matches and a butane lighter when he was detained, Nowels said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of had

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Her eldest son moved in during the pandemic and nursed the orchard’s last remaining tree back to health.

— Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 30 July 2026
Rescued by Tamijuddin, a Muslim friend of her father’s, the adolescent Sutara is nursed back to health by his family before being escorted safely to her brothers in Calcutta.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026

Definition of nursed

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That physical practice produced a defensive dominant today, which provided a couple of clues about the roster.

— Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 30 July 2026
Stronger, more effective composites for electric vehicles, high-speed rail, and airplanes are being produced by lightweight, radiation-tolerant nanomaterials and metamaterials honed for spacecraft, which also reduce weight and increase range.

— Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

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Adobe Stock Responsible AI is often treated as the price businesses must pay for using artificial intelligence.

— Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
Unlike older buyers in their 40s and 50s who rely on cash flow to fund mortgages and college tuition, Philips has treated the business more like a compounding asset than a personal ATM.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of treated

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With Julie’s return, family secrets and wounds that never fully healed will resurface —but so will a strange phenomenon from which no one will emerge unscathed.

— Zac Ntim, Deadline, 28 July 2026
Bateman said he's received thousands of messages from viewers, with everything from parents reaching out for advice to people sharing how the video healed something in them.

— Kelsey Monstrola, USA Today, 28 July 2026