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| Main Entry: |
fertilize
[fur-tl-ahyz]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make ready to bear, produce |
| Synonyms: | beget, breed, compost, cover, dress, enrich, fecundate, feed, fructify, generate, germinate, impregnate, inseminate, lime, make fruitful, make pregnant, manure, mulch, pollinate, procreate, propagate, top-dress, treat |
| Main Entry: | impregnate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | infuse, fill; make pregnant |
| Synonyms: | charge, conceive, drench, fecundate, fertilize, imbrue, implant, inoculate, inseminate, leaven, overflow, percolate, permeate, pervade, procreate, produce, reproduce, saturate, seethe, soak, sodden, souse, steep, suffuse, transfuse |
| Antonyms: | deplete, take out |
| Main Entry: | propagate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | breed, reproduce |
| Synonyms: | bear, beget, engender, father, fecundate, fertilize, generate, grow, impregnate, increase, inseminate, make pregnant, mother, multiply, originate, procreate, produce, proliferate, raise, sire |
| Antonyms: | destroy, kill |
| Main Entry: | inseminate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | impregnate |
| Synonyms: | fertilize, implant, promulgate, seed, sow |
| Main Entry: | pollinate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fertilize with pollen |
| Synonyms: | breed, fertilize |
| Main Entry: | fecundate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | impregnate |
| Synonyms: | conceive, enrich, fertilize, fructify, inseminate, make pregnant, nourish |
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