Clues for the word "NURSE"
We've had 201 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 415 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on January 26, 2026.
Definition of nurse
- n. - One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm.
- n. - One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.
- n. - A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place.
- n. - A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia.
- n. - Either one of the nurse sharks.
- v. t. - To nourish; to cherish; to foster
- v. t. - To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant.
- v. t. - To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon.
- v. t. - To bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants, animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by, attention.
- v. t. - To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.
- v. t. - To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does.
Referring Clues
- Hospital cry
- Sip
- Don't guzzle
- Surgeon's assistant
- Doctor's cry
- Temperature taker, maybe
- Operating room aide
- Care for
- Hospital figure
- One who can take the pressure?
- Call from a ward
- Clara Barton, for one
- Ill-prepared worker?
- Convalescent home employee
- Hospital attendant
- Sticker by a hospital bed?
- White-cap wearer
- Ward healer?
- "The Farmer in the Dell" character
- Drink slowly
- Hospital employee
- One may have an aide
- Thermometer wielder
- Patient's cry
- Florence Nightingale, e.g.
- Minister to
- Hospital worker
- Sip slowly
- Major Houlihan, e.g.
- "Scrubs" extra
- Labor room laborer
- Emergency room VIP
- Hospital staffer
- IV checker
- White uniform wearer
- "M*A*S*H" extra
- Hospital professional
- Clinic worker
- Nightingale, e.g.
- Doctor's assistant
- Nightingale or Barton, e.g.
- Bedside companion
- Drink very slowly
- "General Hospital" figure
- Nightingale or Barton
- Suckle
- Health professional
- Florence Nightingale, notably
- Practical worker?
- Betty or Barton, e.g.
- Ratched or Houlihan
- Person with a bedside manner
- An operator may call on one
- Medical professional
- Health-care professional
- Clara Barton, e.g.
- Cry from the sick ward
- "Grey's Anatomy" extra
- Amah
- Ward healer
- Temperature taker
- "M*A*S*H" extra
- "Romeo and Juliet" character
- Breast-feed
- Betty, in a movie title
- Clinic staffer
- OR or ER staffer
- Soap opera extra, often
- 'Grey's Anatomy' extra
- Part of RN
- Health-care worker
- ICU worker
- Doctor's helper
- Medical worker
- Worker with vital information?
- Hospital shout
- Part of LPN
- Hospital pro
- Florence Nightingale, for one
- Physician's colleague
- "General Hospital" extra
- Ward worker
- Sip on
- Make a beer last
- Bedside companion, sometimes
- Ward attendant
- Patient person
- Hot Lips Houlihan, for one
- Nightingale, notably
- Nanny
- Ward cry?
- Hospital VIP
- Doctor's coworker
- Doctor's co-worker
- Angel in a ward
- Health-care pro
- Tend to
- Attendant for Juliet
- One administering shots, maybe
- Important person in a hospital
- Maternity ward VIP
- Assisted living attendant
- Juliet's attendant
- Certain caregiver
- Many a "Call the Midwife" character
- Job with "nutritious" in its etymology
- Watch over
- Practical ___
- 'ER' figure
- Infirmary call
- Vital hospital worker
- Ward employee
- Hospital caregiver
- Health worker
- Caregiver
- Tend the sick
- Tend
- Tend, care for
- Helpful track off "Get Behind Me Satan" (with "The")
- Tend to go over to escort, getting one's end away
- Plastic surgeon needs letters to go out with hospital worker?
- Look after harbour
- Carer is out at sunrise, perhaps
- Fish from 6 to 7
- See 1 down
- She tends to dash around the Home Counties
- Patient tender
- Carer
- Hardly guzzle
- Patient watcher
- Look after
- Care for - harbour
- Professional carer
- Child minder to hurry back to Kent
- Health worker casting runes
- Sip intermittently
- Worker in white
- Character who counsels Juliet
- Casualty room carer
- A patient assistant
- Near us, refurbished steam engine sets off with tender
- Foster-sister?
- Promote and organise endless unrest
- Hospital worker managed to move back to Southeast
- Tend to, care for
- Look after: entertain
- Harbour's name's sure unusual
- Sister deciphered runes
- Take care of shark
- Sister's name, sure unusual
- Slow-moving shark in harbour
- Hospital worker inside comes running over
- Take care of slow-moving shark
- Foster former union with home counties
- Greek character regularly rushed treat
- Rehab center staffer
- Feed a bottle to
- Doctor's aide
- Hospital carer
- Enjoy slowly, as a beverage
- Surgery aide
- Tender resignation finally, sure to be sacked
- Helper in an operating room
- A caring translator of runes
- Catherine is one in A Farewell To Arms
- "Grey's Anatomy" staffer
- Whitman's Civil War job
- One who may take your 50-Down
- Blood drive worker
- Obstetrics worker
- One who might give you a shot
- Hospital patient's shout
- E.R. employee
- Operating room pro
- Look after athletes running, some in retirement
- Tend to run irregularly to the southeast
- Tend to the sick
- One taking vitals, perhaps
- Tender translation of runes
- Patient person?
- Walt Whitman volunteered as one during the Civil War
- One of 2020’s front-line heroes
- Look after a grievance, say?
- Triage pro
- Frontline worker of 2020
- Slowly consume
- Checkup figure
- ___ anesthetist
- The "N" of RN
- Vital hospital employee
- Breastfeed
- Many a frontline worker
- Frontline health care professional
- Certain essential worker
- Essential hospital worker
- Shot-putter?
- School health staffer
- Health professional who might work at a school
- Clinic pro
- Word before "practitioner" or "shark"
- Urgent care worker
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - January 26, 2026
- Your Life Choices - January 22, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 12, 2026
- Mirror Daily - January 05, 2026
- Daily Quick - December 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 24, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 28, 2025
- New York Times - October 25, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - October 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 04, 2025
- Mirror Mini - September 01, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 27, 2025
- Daily American - August 17, 2025
- New York Times - August 13, 2025
- New York Times - June 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 12, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - May 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - May 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 07, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - April 07, 2025
- Your Life Choices - March 16, 2025
- Your Life Choices - February 24, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - February 06, 2025
- USA Today - February 03, 2025
- Your Life Choices - January 18, 2025
- LA Times - January 15, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 12, 2025
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