Foster
adjective
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- (belonging to a family though not related by blood) foster child នៃកូនចិញ្ចឹម, foster father នៃឪពុកចិញ្ចឹម
verb — past tense: fostered ; past participle: fostered ; present participle: fostering ;
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- (TRANSITIVE) (Encourage, to be favorable to, to rear, to advance, to promote, to nourish. -foster child a child raised by someone not its own mother or father. -foster home a home in which child is raised by someone other) ជុំរុញអោយចម្រើនឡើង, foster a child ចិញ្ចឹម (កូនអ្នកដទៃ)
Example: People who can not have a baby of their own sometimes foster (a child). - 2.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) ជួយអោយចម្រើនឡើង
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
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- One who, or that which, fosters.
verb — past tense: fostered ; past participle: fostered ; present participle: fostering ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius.
- 3.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To be nourished or trained up together.
- 4.
- (TRANSITIVE) Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood.
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- advance, cherish, cultivate, encourage, favor, further, help, nurture, raise, retain, support
- 1.
- abandon, dislike, disregard, neglect, reject
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- A forester