nourish
verb (used with object)
to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
am nourishing
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present progressiveof nourish (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I am aware, indeed, in part, that I am nourishing a rival who will far surpass me; and this is an additional motive, and will be an added pleasure.
From Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) by H. Wragg
I am aware, indeed, in part, that I am nourishing a rival who will far surpass me; and this is an additional motive, and will be an added pleasure.’
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Sidney Colvin
I am aware indeed, in part, that I am nourishing a rival who will far surpass me; and this is an additional motive, and will be an added pleasure.'
From Adonais by Percy Bysshe Shelley
I reproach myself that I am deceiving him, that I am nourishing in his heart a vain hope.
From Egmont by Anna Swanwick
