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wet nursed

wet nursed is the simple past and past participle of wet nurse.

Meaning of wet nurse

Verb

wet nurse (third-person singular simple present wet nurses, present participle wet nursing, simple past and past participle wet nursed)

  1. (transitive) To act as a wet nurse (in either sense).

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Questions about wet nursed

What is wet nursed the simple past and past participle of?
Wet nursed is the simple past and past participle of wet nurse.

Words near wet nursed in the dictionary

  1. wet my lips
  2. wet nelly
  3. wet noodle
  4. wet noodles
  5. wet nurse
  6. wet nursed
  7. wet nurses
  8. wet nursing
  9. wet one's beak
  10. wet one's clay
  11. wet one's pants

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wet nursed (page history and authors); wet nurse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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