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Definition of wet nurse in English: wet nursenoun historical A woman employed to suckle another woman's child. 〈主史〉奶妈，乳母 Example sentencesExamples - The women went away, too, to work as wet nurses in Paris and elsewhere.
- Women administrators were appointed to supervise the system of child welfare services to ‘enfants assistés’ and the regulation of wet nurses.
- The fourth type of wet-nursing developed when the Church and the State employed wet nurses to suckle foundlings in institutions created for saving souls and lives.
- In the past, upper-class women sent their children to wet nurses until they were weaned.
- From the beginning there was a practical obstacle to the proselytising: the hospital soon ran out of Protestant wet nurses.
verb [with object]1Act as a wet nurse to. 给…当奶妈（或乳母） Example sentencesExamples - Chapman, the literary magazine that the redoubtable Joy Hendry has wet-nursed from infancy, is celebrating its 100th issue after more than 30 years of continuous publication.
- They paid them, wet-nursed them, mind them, breed them, fed them and nurtured them, the Opposition Leader said.
- As an infant, he was farmed out to be wet-nursed, and although his mother would come to visit occasionally, he spent the first five or six years of his life in the working-class family of Eugenia and Milziade Baldi and their two sons.
Synonyms breastfeed, suckle, wet-nurse, feed - 1.1informal Look after (someone) as though they were a helpless infant.
〈非正式〉（如照顾无助的婴儿般）照顾（某人），过分照顾（某人） I got tired of having to wet-nurse performers Example sentencesExamples - Blackstone grumbled to himself; ‘Demoted to wet-nursing aspiring pilots.’
- Yet, the reality is that many directors tend to do just that - especially if they're stressed out newbies who have better things to do (they believe) than to wet-nurse a crybaby actor.
- I get annoyed when people force their hand-holding, wet-nursing systems down my throat.
Definition of wet nurse in US English: wet nursenounˈwet nərsˈwɛt nərs historical A woman employed to suckle another woman's child. 〈主史〉奶妈，乳母 Example sentencesExamples - In the past, upper-class women sent their children to wet nurses until they were weaned.
- Women administrators were appointed to supervise the system of child welfare services to ‘enfants assistés’ and the regulation of wet nurses.
- The fourth type of wet-nursing developed when the Church and the State employed wet nurses to suckle foundlings in institutions created for saving souls and lives.
- The women went away, too, to work as wet nurses in Paris and elsewhere.
- From the beginning there was a practical obstacle to the proselytising: the hospital soon ran out of Protestant wet nurses.
verbˈwet nərsˈwɛt nərs [with object]1Act as a wet nurse to. 给…当奶妈（或乳母） Example sentencesExamples - They paid them, wet-nursed them, mind them, breed them, fed them and nurtured them, the Opposition Leader said.
- Chapman, the literary magazine that the redoubtable Joy Hendry has wet-nursed from infancy, is celebrating its 100th issue after more than 30 years of continuous publication.
- As an infant, he was farmed out to be wet-nursed, and although his mother would come to visit occasionally, he spent the first five or six years of his life in the working-class family of Eugenia and Milziade Baldi and their two sons.
Synonyms breastfeed, suckle, wet-nurse, feed - 1.1informal Look after (someone) as though they were a helpless infant.
〈非正式〉（如照顾无助的婴儿般）照顾（某人），过分照顾（某人） I got tired of having to wet-nurse performers Example sentencesExamples - Yet, the reality is that many directors tend to do just that - especially if they're stressed out newbies who have better things to do (they believe) than to wet-nurse a crybaby actor.
- Blackstone grumbled to himself; ‘Demoted to wet-nursing aspiring pilots.’
- I get annoyed when people force their hand-holding, wet-nursing systems down my throat.
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