# mothered

Pronunciation: US say "MUTH-urd" /ˈmʌðɚd/; UK say "MUTH-uhd" /ˈmʌðəd/

## Verb

1. Simple past and past participle of mother. — simple past and past participle of mother
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of mother. Use it for the past, or after has, have, had, is, was or were.
   - _Throughout the war, she mothered every refugee child who arrived at the farm._
   - _The old nurse had mothered three generations of the same family._

## Adjective

2. Receiving the care, protection, and attention that a mother provides.
   - Simple: Given the love and care that a mother gives a child.
   - _A well-mothered infant develops trust in the people around it._
   - _After years in institutions, the boy finally felt mothered for the first time._
3. Thick and viscid, resembling the film or membrane that forms on the surface of fermented liquids.
   - Simple: Thick and slimy, like the skin that forms on top of old vinegar or wine.
   - _The neglected vinegar grew mothered and cloudy at the bottom of the barrel._
   - _A mothered layer clung to the inside of the fermenting crock._

## Origin

**Meanings 1–2** — From Middle English *modred, formed from mother plus the suffix -ed.
**Meaning 3** — From mother (in the sense of a fermented culture) plus the suffix -ed.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/mothered (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).