wet-nurse vs lactate

wet-nurse and lactate both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
wet-nurse	Yes	No	Yes	No
lactate	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, wet-nurse and lactate are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of wet-nurse include breastfeed, give suck, nurse, suck, suckle.

wet-nurse (noun)	lactate (noun)
a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else	a salt or ester of lactic acid

wet-nurse (verb)	lactate (verb)
give suck to	give suck to