1.
If something provides a person, animal, or plant with ~, it provides them with the food that is necessary for life, growth, and good health.
He was unable to take ~ for several days.
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2.
The action of nourishing someone or something, or the experience of being nourished, can be referred to as ~.
Sugar gives quick relief to hunger but provides no lasting ~.
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