fructify

Verb

Meaning

To bear fruit.

To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

set bloom produce bear fruit dress develop setting grow feed mature blow flower breed reproduce
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Antonyms

decline destroy decrease collapse ruin weaken
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Hypernyms

better procreate improve reproduce multiply amend

Derivatives

fructified fructifying

Examples

[Money should] fructify in the pockets of the people. William Ewart Gladstone

Whosoever has a natural leaning towards a science, even if it was less noble than another, should not abandon it for the other because if he did he would be like someone who would be growing coconuts in al-Andalus and olive trees in India, crops that would never fructify. Ibn Hazm

the apple trees fructify Source: Internet

The earth that he fructified Source: Internet

The seeds fructified Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

fructified fructifier fructiform fructive fructivore fructivorous