| VERB | change | fertilize, fertilise, feed | provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to |
|---|---|---|---|
| change | fertilize, fecundate, fertilise | make fertile or productive | |
| body | fertilize, inseminate, fecundate, fertilise | introduce semen into (a female) |
| Sounds | fer'tahlay.z | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | actualize ... womanize: 266 rhymes with ayz... | |
| Meaning | Provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Model | They fertilize the trees | |
| Example | "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants" | |
| Synonyms | fertilise, feed | |
| Category | farming, agriculture, husbandry | The practice of cultivating the land or raising stock |
| Narrower | dung | fertilize or dress with dung |
| nitrify | treat (soil) with nitrates | |
| topdress | scatter manure or fertilizer over (land) | |
| Broader | enrich | make better or improve in quality |
| Spanish | abonar, fertilizar | |
| Catalan | adobar, fertilitzar | |
| Nouns | fertilization | making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure |
| fertilizer | any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile | |
| Meaning | make fertile or productive. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "The course fertilized her imagination" | |
| Synonyms | fecundate, fertilise | |
| Broader | change, alter, modify | Cause to change |
| Spanish | fecundar, fertilizar | |
| Catalan | fecundar, fertilitzar | |
| Nouns | fertilizer | any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile |
| Meaning | introduce semen into (a female) . | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Synonyms | inseminate, fecundate, fertilise | |
| Narrower | cross-fertilize, cross-fertilise | Cause to undergo cross-fertilization |
| impregnate, knock up, bang up, prang up | make pregnant | |
| impregnate | fertilize and cause to grow | |
| pollinate, pollenate, cross-pollinate | fertilize by transfering pollen | |
| stratify | Render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand | |
| Broader | change, alter, modify | Cause to change |
| Spanish | fecundar, fertilizar, inseminar | |
| Catalan | inseminar | |
| Nouns | fertilization | creation by the physical union of male and female gametes |
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