(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
Your ~ is the woman who gave birth to you. You can also call someone your ~ if she brings you up as if she was this woman.
She sat on the edge of her ~’s bed...
She’s an English teacher and a ~ of two children...
I’m here, Mother.
N-FAMILY
2.
If a woman ~s a child, she looks after it and brings it up, usually because she is its ~.
Colleen had dreamed of ~ing a large family.
VERB: V n
~ing
The reality of ~ing is frequently very different from the romantic ideal.
N-UNCOUNT
3.
If you ~ someone, you treat them with great care and affection, as if they were a small child.
Stop ~ing me.
VERB: V n