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Synonyms for nurture
Synonyms for nurture: raising, foster and incubate. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for nurture
Interchangeable with nurture, one per sense
Audited under nurture's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one nurture carries in that sense.
- raisingnoun, in the sense "helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community"
- fosterverb, in the sense "help develop, help grow"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name nurture as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- incubateincubate is a verb in the sense "to develop (a plan or idea) gradually in a protected environment"
Two directions, one standard: two audited under nurture and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
They debated whether nature or nurture was more important.
The true synonym
raising
Same sentence, swapped: They debated whether nature or raising was more important.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- ranch
- advance
- culture
help develop, help grow
Nurture his talents.
The true synonym
foster
Same sentence, swapped: Foster his talents.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot nurture is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- parent
- spur
- recreate
Where nurture turns up in the game
nurture is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play nurture
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so nurture 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 actions at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. nurture carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.