nourish
verb (used with object)
to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
had nourished
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past perfectof nourish.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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As Hoffman observes, “for Oswaldo Payá, the experience was the opposite. They had not conquered his soul. They had nourished it.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2022
Both were good party men who rose to the pinnacle of power before moving to reform or dismantle the systems that had nourished them for decades.
From Reuters ● Nov. 11, 2021
As for the intellectual world that had nourished him, he said, it was a product of another time.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2017
When I'd first thought of taking a trip to America, I knew immediately I wanted to end in Port Angeles, the town on the Olympic Peninsula that had nourished his sobriety.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2013
The reluctant Garretts had nourished and sustained Booth for another day.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
