Synonyms:
nourished
Meaning: being provided with adequate nourishment
Usage examples
She nourished a dream of ambition
It had decided his vocation, fed his ambition, nourished his dreams, desires, hopes.
Spring! and the hillsides flourished, vivid in jewelled green; Spring! and our hearts' blood nourished envy and hatred and spleen. Little cared we for the Spring-birth; much cared we to get on-- Stake in the Great White Channel, stake ere the best be gone.
This view would seem entirely justifiable when we consider the wonderful changes in the conditions of modern life that have been brought about by the wide-spread employment of these inventions, and the gigantic industries that have grown up and been nourished by their world-wide application.