Food and drink
Synonyms for nourish
The synonym for nourish recorded in this bank is sustain, in the sense "to provide a living thing with the food needed for health and growth". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for nourish
- sustainverb, in the sense "to provide a living thing with the food needed for health and growth"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and nourish carries one sense so far.
to provide a living thing with the food needed for health and growth
Balanced diets nourish the body.
The true synonym
sustain
Same sentence, swapped: Balanced diets sustain the body.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- season
- garnish
- flavor
Where nourish turns up in the game
nourish is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where nourish is the trap
- pamperverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is baby, in the sense "treat with excessive indulgence", so nourish is there to be ruled out.
Play nourish
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so nourish reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from food and drink at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. nourish carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.