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Protected; cared for
Answer for the clue "Protected; cared for ", 8 letters:
mothered
Alternative clues for the word mothered
Word definitions for mothered in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Thick, like mother (film or membrane on fermented liquids); viscid. v (en-past of: mother )
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mother \Moth"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mothered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Mothering .] To adopt as a son or daughter; to perform the duties of a mother to. The queen, to have put lady Elizabeth besides the crown, would have mothered another body's child. --Howell. ...
Usage examples of mothered.
She ached to hold her son, and grieved anew for Iza, who had taken her in and mothered her, though she had been as different to the Clan as Rydag was to the Lion Camp.
Camilla was my mother, one of the ones who mothered me when I had lost my own mother, when I could not remember her at all.