Fertilize
['fɜːtɪlaɪz] or ['fɝtəlaɪz]
Definition
(verb.) provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to; 'We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants'.
(verb.) make fertile or productive; 'The course fertilized her imagination'.
Edited by Kelsey--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows.
(v. t.) To fecundate; as, to fertilize flower.
Edited by Eva
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Enrich, make fertile, make fruitful.
Editor: Randolph
Examples
- His greatest wisdom is required to select a policy that will fertilize the public mind. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Men learnt so to fertilize the soil as to produce quadruple and quintuple the crops got from the same area in the seventeenth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the two ideas never met and fertilized each other. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Ordinary experience does not receive the enrichment which it should; it is not fertilized by school learning. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And the East is fertilized continually by European traditions: that stream of immigration brings with it a thousand unforeseeable possibilities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We made a contract with an old Jap to supply us with the proper fibre, and that man went to work and cultivated and cross-fertilized bamboo until he got exactly the quality we required. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The man who had discovered that it could be tilled died of the labour; the man who succeeded him in possession ruined himself in fertilizing it. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Davy recognized and explained the beneficial fertilizing effects of ammonia, and analysed and explained numerous fertilizers, including guano. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Divided Feeds for Separate Grains and Fertilizing Material. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This directness of vision fertilizes thought. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typist: Osborn