lactate n 1: a salt or ester of lactic acid v 1: give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places" [syn: {breastfeed}, {suckle}, {suck}, {nurse}, {wet-nurse}, {lactate}, {give suck}] [ant: {bottlefeed}]
Lactate \Lac"tate\, n. [L. lac, lactis, milk: cf. F. lactate.] (Chem.) A salt of lactic acid. [1913 Webster]
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "lactate": aliment, breast-feed, dry-nurse, excrete, fatten, fatten up, force-feed, foster, give out, nourish, nurse, nurture, nutrify, produce, secern, secrete, stuff, suckle, tear, water, weep, wet-nurse