The difference between Nurse and Take care of
When used as verbs, nurse means to breastfeed, whereas take care of means to look after, to provide care for.
Nurse is also noun with the meaning: a wet-nurse.
check bellow for the other definitions of Nurse and Take care of
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Nurse as a noun (archaic):
A wet-nurse.
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Nurse as a noun:
A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people's young.
Examples:
"They hired a nurse to care for their young boy"
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Nurse as a noun:
A person trained to provide care for the sick.
Examples:
"The nurse made her rounds through the hospital ward"
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Nurse as a noun:
One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.
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Nurse as a noun (horticulture):
A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.
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Nurse as a noun (nautical):
A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
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Nurse as a noun:
A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
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Nurse as a noun:
A nurse shark.
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Nurse as a verb:
to breastfeed
Examples:
"She believes that nursing her baby will make him strong and healthy''."
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Nurse as a verb:
to care for the sick
Examples:
"She nursed him back to health."
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Nurse as a verb:
to treat kindly and with extra care
Examples:
"She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed."
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Nurse as a verb:
to manage with care and economy
Examples:
"synonyms husband"
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Nurse as a verb:
to drink slowly
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Nurse as a verb:
to foster, to nourish
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Nurse as a verb:
to hold closely to one's chest
Examples:
"Would you like to nurse the puppy?"
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Nurse as a verb:
to strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots
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Take care of as a verb (transitive):
To look after, to provide care for.
Examples:
"My elderly mother needs to be taken care of."
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Take care of as a verb (transitive):
To deal with, handle.
Examples:
"Can somebody take care of the customers while I clean this mess?"
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Take care of as a verb (transitive, slang, euphemistic):
To kill.
Examples:
"In the motion picture ''The Godfather'' gangster Virgil Sollozzo took care of Luca Brasi by having him strangled."