nourish
verb (used with object)
to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
self-nourished
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a word derived from
nourish.
Example Sentences
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Perhaps there may have been illusion, a self-nourished fancy, evoked from the silent reveries of those solitary days at Bastres, when her mind was for long periods given up to undisturbed imaginings.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various
