fertilize

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verb

1. provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to (Freq. 1)
- We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants
• Syn:
fertilise, feed
• Derivationally related forms:
fertilization, fertilizer
• Topics:
farming, agriculture, husbandry
• Hypernyms:
enrich
• Hyponyms:
nitrify, dung, topdress
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- They fertilize the trees
2. make fertile or productive
- The course fertilized her imagination
• Syn:
fecundate, fertilise
• Derivationally related forms:
fecundation (for: fecundate), fertilizer
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
3. introduce semen into (a female)
• Syn:
inseminate, fecundate, fertilise
• Derivationally related forms:
fertilization, fecundation (for: fecundate), insemination (for: inseminate), semen (for: inseminate)
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Hyponyms:
stratify, impregnate, knock up, bang up, prang up,
cross-fertilize, cross-fertilise, pollinate, pollenate, cross-pollinate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  inseminate, fecundate, fertilise, feed