MOTHERING Synonyms

• showing maternal instincts

• characteristic of a matriarchy

• suggestive of or acting like a mother

• in a maternal manner; as a mother

• befitting a mother; warm and nurturing

• The provision of healthcare services.

• the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child

• helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

• help develop, help grow

• look after a child until it is an adult

• provide with nourishment

• To act as parent, to raise or rear.

• The process of raising and educating a child from birth until adulthood.

• make (offspring) by reproduction

• call forth

• make (offspring) by reproduction

• a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

• `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military

• the founder of a family

• (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom

• God when considered as the first person in the Trinity

• a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization

• a person who founds or establishes some institution

• the head of an organized crime family

• make (offspring) by reproduction

• an excited state of agitation

• an angry disturbance

• a quarrel about petty points

• a rapid active commotion

• worry unnecessarily or excessively

• care for like a mother

• produce, create

• give or supply

• produce (energy)

• make (offspring) by reproduction

• a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent

• come into the possession of something concrete or abstract

• enter or assume a certain state or condition

• cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition

• receive a specified treatment (abstract)

• reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress

• go or come after and bring or take back

• go through (mental or physical states or experiences)

• take vengeance on or get even

• achieve a point or goal

• cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner

• succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase

• come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)

• be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness

• communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone

• give certain properties to something

• move into a desired direction of discourse

• grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of

• attract and fix

• reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot

• reach by calculation

• acquire as a result of some effort or action

• purchase

• perceive by hearing

• suffer from the receipt of

• receive as a retribution or punishment

• leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form

• reach and board

• irritate

• evoke an emotional response

• apprehend and reproduce accurately

• earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher

• overcome or destroy

• be a mystery or bewildering to

• take the first step or steps in carrying out an action

• undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)

• make (offspring) by reproduction

• care for like a mother

• protect excessively

• a title of address formerly used for a man of rank and authority

• the founder of a family

• male parent of an animal especially a domestic animal such as a horse

• make (offspring) by reproduction

• produce, create

• bring out for display

• bring forth or yield

• make (offspring) by reproduction

• a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)