fertilize
To make (the soil) more fertile by adding nutrients to it.
Other meanings
To make more creative or intellectually productive.
“to fertilize one's imagination”
To cause to produce offspring through insemination; to inseminate.
Synonyms
- feed
Related words
- biofertilize
- cross-fertilize
- defertilize
- fertigation
- fertilizable
- fertilization
- fertilizer
- fertilizin
- misfertilize
- nonfertilized
- overfertilize
- postfertilized
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “fertilize” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.