fertilize

Verb

Meaning

To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows.

To fecundate; as, to fertilize flower.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

feed fertilise inseminate fecundate milt work season dress procreate generate farm breed dressed till propagate
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Antonyms

water damage destroy decrease check halt
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Hypernyms

change alter modify enrich

Hyponyms

dung impregnate pollinate stratify nitrify bang up

Phrases with the word

fertilize with marl

Derivatives

fertilized fertilizing

Examples

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. Rebecca West

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.... it must fertilize the imagination. Joan Miró

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it. André Malraux

Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear. David J. Schwartz

It's shocking, the positions, the unchecked simplicity with which one mind contrives to fertilize another! Such positions the Kama Sutra itself doesn't know. Wisława Szymborska

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds! Meryl Streep

Close letter words and terms

fertilization age fertilization membrane fertilizational fertilize with marl fertilized egg fertilized female zygote