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fertilize

verb

1 fertilize

Provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to:
— We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants.

synonyms: feed, fertilise.

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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