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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a salt or ester of lactic acid;


VERB (1)

1. give suck to;
- Example: "The wetnurse suckled the infant"
- Example: "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places"
[syn: breastfeed, suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Lactate \Lac"tate\, n. [L. lac, lactis, milk: cf. F. lactate.] (Chem.) A salt of lactic acid. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

lactate n 1: a salt or ester of lactic acid v 1: give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places" [syn: breastfeed, suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck] [ant: bottlefeed]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

22 Moby Thesaurus words for "lactate": aliment, breast-feed, dry-nurse, excrete, fatten, fatten up, force-feed, foster, give out, nourish, nurse, nurture, nutrify, produce, secern, secrete, stuff, suckle, tear, water, weep, wet-nurse