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nourished

adjective C2
  1. fed
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A HEN finding the eggs of a viper and carefully keeping them warm, nourished them into life.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 93 · B2
Dantès gazed on the man who could thus philosophically resign hopes so long and ardently nourished with an astonishment mingled with admiration.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 143 · C1

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