fertilize

Example Sentences

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Today P is accumulating in overfertilized agricultural soils in Europe and the United States or is running off from fields as erosion and leaching.

From Slate • Dec. 26, 2013

The problem is that treated sewage contains nitrate and phosphate, fertilizing substances widely used in agriculture that make things worse in overfertilized lakes.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was at the root of her frailties—a soil overfertilized from which weeds spring apace.

From Kimono by Paris, John