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Answer for the clue "Help to develop ", 6 letters:
foster

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v. promote the growth of; "Foster our children's well-being and education" [syn: further ] bring up under fosterage; of children help develop, help grow; "nurture his talents" [syn: nurture ]

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Foster \Fos"ter\, a. [AS. f[=o]ster, f[=o]stor, nourishment. See Foster , v. t.] Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called ...

Usage examples of foster.

I decided on the journey here that if Lady Agatine was not to be allowed what I may call Foster Mother-Right, then I would place an option before the Council that clearly favors her Blood Mother-Right.

The singular jealousy of the Venetians for the solidarity of their government, with their no less singular jealousy of individual aggrandizement, together with the rare perception of mental characteristics that was fostered by the daily culture of the councils in which every noble took his part, led them constantly to ignore their selfish hopes in order to choose the right man for the place.

The training offered by the priests of Amel is to look beyond the illusion of opposites fostered by the grid and to master the instinctual responses those opposites provoke.

This man, who had given up everything in life except his own self, fostered an amorous inclination, in spite of his age and of his gout.

A society controlled by the privileged few in the Central Consortium, the governing body, who fostered the undercurrent of conduct, superiority, and promotion of Avion to the rest of the universe.

I met up with Foster at the Pan Pan just in time for an early lunch of juicy barbecued ribs and an excellent chopped barbecued-pork sandwich.

There hobbles Goody Foster, a sour and bitter old beldam, looking as if she went to curse, and not to pray, and whom many of her neighbors suspect of taking an occasional airing on a broomstick.

Sandy Foster, football bohunk extraordinaire, leaned forward and handed them both cold beers, after throwing his own empty through the open T-top.

In visiting the meetings in those parts we were measurably baptized into a feeling of the state of the Society, and in bowedness of spirit went to the Yearly Meeting at Newport, where we met with John Storer from England, Elizabeth Shipley, Ann Gaunt, Hannah Foster, and Mercy Redman, from our parts, all ministers of the gospel, of whose company I was glad.

Place next to where I was fostered at your age, old Lady Cedrys at Briary Holding.

He wondered just what Ned Buntline had written in his deposition that had fostered that idea.

The Carabinieri Corps fostered a certain level of healthy paranoia among its men and women.

Burly sat in a cathedra chair in one of his smaller rooms of audience with Sir Bass Foster, Duke of Norfolk, seated in a lower-backed armchair across an inlaid table from him.

And nobody remembering that Foster figured the civvies would chill us--and he was right.

Foster remembered confronting a tall, slender man, probably a chief, as he was mounted on a bay cobby and wore a rust-spotted chain-mail hauberk.