Fertilize meaning

fûr'tl-īz'
To make (soil, for example) fertile.

Compost fertilizes the soil.

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To cause the fertilization of (an ovum, for example).
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To spread fertilizer on.

Used a mechanical spreader to fertilize the lawn.

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To spread fertilizer.
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To make fertile; make fruitful or productive; enrich.

Nitrates fertilize soil.

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To spread fertilizer on.
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To make (the female reproductive cell or female individual) fruitful by pollinating, or impregnating, with the male gamete.
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To cause the fertilization of an ovum.
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To make matter, such as soil, fertile.

Compost fertilizes the soil.

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To spread fertilizer on a surface or material.

Fertilized the lawn.

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To make (the soil) more fertile by adding nutrients to it.
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(figuratively) To make more creative or intellectually productive.

To fertilize one's imagination.

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To cause to produce offspring through insemination; to inseminate.
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Origin of fertilize

Sentence Examples

  • It has been conclusively shown that the Ostrea edulis does not fertilize itself.

  • xlvii.), shall fertilize the barren Wadi of Acacias.

  • Such customs repose on various superstitions; for example, the self-mutilation of the Galli or priests of Cybele was probably a magical ceremony intended to fertilize the soil and stimulate the crops.

  • What if the farmer could give every stalk of corn individual attention and water and fertilize each one exactly when it was needed?

  • in width that forms the eastern boundary of Nejd, to reappear in the copious springs that fertilize El Hasa and the Bahrein littoral.

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