fertilize
fer·til·ize (fʉrt′'l īz′)
transitive verb -·ized′, -·iz′·ing
- to make fertile; make fruitful or productive; enrich nitrates fertilize soil
- to spread fertilizer on
- Biol. to make (the female reproductive cell or female individual) fruitful by pollinating, or impregnating, with the male gamete
fertilize
v.
To enrich land
manure, dress, top-dress, feed, lime, prepare, mulch, cover, treat. To impregnate
breed, make pregnant, fecundate, generate, germinate, pollinate, inseminate, implant, propagate, procreate, get with child, beget, knock up*.
Object
- ovum: Any form of birth control that destroys the fetus or fertilized ovum rather than preventing conception is therefore wrong.
- egg: The fertilized egg develops into a seed, which can then be dispersed by the plant.
- soil: Basically, composting uses decaying organic material to fertilize the soil.
- earth: The sun was then seen as fertilizing the earth.
- ground: It is a memory of ancient bull sacrifice to fertilize the ground.
- field: That is to say the animals are fed on what is produced from the fields fertilized with manure.
Preposition: with
- manure: That is to say the animals are fed on what is produced from the fields fertilized with manure.
- seaweed: If it's turning yellow, fertilize with seaweed and green sand.
Subject
- sperm: For conception to occur an egg has to meet and be fertilized by sperm, travel down to and implant in the uterus.
Modifying Another Word
- once: If you are going to fertilize only once or twice a year, get a slow release fertilizer.
- heavily: Chinese cabbage in Austria is heavily fertilized to produce big heads.
- n't: If you choose to repot, do n't fertilize at the same time or the plant might go into shock.
- not: If the egg was not fertilized, progesterone encourages the uterus to shed the lining, and the result is menstruation flow.
- also: Weeding was done by hand with a hoe and fertilizing also by hand.
Preposition: by
- sperm: For conception to occur an egg has to meet and be fertilized by sperm, travel down to and implant in the uterus.
From this foul drain the greatest stream of human industry flows out to fertilize the whole world. From this filthy sewer pure gold flows. Here humanity attains its most complete development and its most brutish, here civilizationworks its miracles and civilized man isturned almost into a savage.
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