fertilize
verb
1 fertilize
Provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to:
— We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants.
2 fertilize
Make fertile or productive:
— The course fertilized her imagination.
synonyms: fecundate, fertilise.
Roget 168: make productive etc. adj.; fructify; procreate, generate, fertilize, spermative†, impregnate; fecundate, fecundify†; teem, multiply; ... show more
3 fertilize
Introduce semen into (a female).
synonyms: fecundate, fertilise, inseminate.
Moby thesaurus: backset, compost, cross-fertilize, cross-pollen, cross-pollinate, cross-pollinize, cultivate, culture, cut, delve, dig, dress, enrich, fallow, fatten, fecundate, fecundify, feed, force, fructify ... show more.
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