English Dictionary

mother

/ˈmʌðə(ɹ)/

verb

(chiefly transitive) To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.) / (transitive) To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.

My mother loves to cook delicious meals for our family.

意味（1）

(chiefly transitive) To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.)

Q's sister, Debbie, had mothered two kids by the time she was twenty, with neither of the fathers in sight.

意味（2）

(transitive) To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.

She had seen fewer years than any of us, but she was of such superb Evehood and simplicity that she mothered us from the beginning.

意味（3）

(transitive) To cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar”).

mothered oil, mothered vinegar, mothered wine

意味（4）

(intransitive, of an alcohol) To develop mother.

Iron rusted, paper cracked, cream soured and vinegar mothered.