nurse vs push away

nurse

verb
  • To drink slowly, to make it last. 

  • To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast. 

  • To foster, to nourish. 

  • To manage with care and economy. 

  • To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to. 

  • To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle. 

  • To treat kindly and with extra care. 

  • To hold closely to one's chest 

  • To strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots. 

noun
  • One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters. 

  • A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. 

  • A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young. 

  • A shrub or tree that protects a young plant. 

  • A person trained to provide care for the sick. 

  • A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place. 

  • A nurse shark or dogfish. 

push away

verb
  • To reject intimacy; to reject friendship or romance; to refuse to accept or think about (something unpleasant). 

  • To apply a force to (an entity) such that it moves to a more distant position. 

How often have the words nurse and push away occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )