Word Meanings - CHERISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 1. To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid. We were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children. 1 Thess. ii. 7. 2. To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to

Additional info about word: CHERISH

Etym: 1. To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid. We were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children. 1 Thess. ii. 7. 2. To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle. To cherish virtue and humanity. Burke. Syn. -- To nourish; foster; nurse; nurture; entertain; encourage; comfort; protect; support; See Nurture.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CHERISH)

• Cultivate
• Promote
• foster
• study
• improve
• fertilize
• till
• advance
• refine
• civilize
• nourish
• cherish
• Enshrine
• Consecrate
• treasure
• embalm
• Foment
• Excite
• fan
• propagate
• encourage
• Harbor Cherish
• accommodate
• entertain
• indulge
• shelter
• lodge
• Indulge
• Spoil
• pamper
• humor
• gratify
• bask
• revel
• grovel
• favor
• allow

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CHERISH)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Expose
• surrender
• betray
• imperil
• endanger
• Scatter
• squander
• dissipate
• disregard
• disesteem
• prostitute
• waste

Related words: (words related to CHERISH)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• HUMOR
  A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin. "A body full of humors." Sir W. Temple. 3. State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• FAVOR
  Partiality; bias. Bouvier. 9. A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received. 10. pl. (more info) L. favor, fr. favere to be favorable, cf. Skr. bhavaya to further, foster, causative of bhBe.
• CONSECRATE
  Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred. They were assembled in that consecrate place. Bacon.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• REVELLENT
  Causing revulsion; revulsive. -- n.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• CHERISHMENT
  Encouragement; comfort. Rich bounty and dear cherishment. Spenser.
• PAMPERER
  One who, or that which, pampers. Cowper.
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• SHELTERLESS
  Destitute of shelter or protection. Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• TREASURER
  One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority;
• ENCOURAGER
  One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• SQUANDER
  scatter, to squander, Prov. E. swatter, Dan. sqvatte, Sw. sqvätta to squirt, sqvättra to squander, Icel. skvetta to squirt out, to throw 1. To scatter; to disperse. Our squandered troops he rallies. Dryden. 2. To spend lavishly or profusely;
• DISESTEEMER
  One who disesteems. Boyle.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• GOOD-HUMORED
  Having a cheerful spirit and demeanor; good-tempered. See Good- natured.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• DECONSECRATE
  To deprive of sacredness; to secularize. -- De*con`se*cra"tion, n.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• ARCHTREASURER
  A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• PREFINE
  To limit beforehand. Knolles.