foster
/ˈfɔstɚ/ verb C1- To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
- To promote the development of something; to cultivate and grow a thing. · Our company fosters an appreciation for the arts.
- To nurse or cherish something.
He/she/it fosters · Past fostered · Past participle fostered · -ing form fostering
Verb forms
- Base form
- foster
- He/she/it
- fosters
- Past
- fostered
- Past participle
- fostered
- -ing form
- fostering
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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We will see what the Pack will say to this fostering of man-cubs.
You know, sir, that my wife nursed him, and so I may say I am his foster-father.
“‘Sir,’ replied Haydée, ‘the Count of Monte Cristo, my foster-father, has been in Normandy the last three days.’
She has fostered my independence by professedly indulging my love for liberty.
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