fertilize

1. Provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to (synset 200503838)
   "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"
   referred to in: agriculture, farming, husbandry - the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
   is a type of: enrich - make better or improve in quality
   subtypes:

   • nitrify - treat (soil) with nitrates
   • dung - fertilize or dress with dung
   • topdress - scatter manure or fertilizer over (land)
   same as: feed, fertilise
2. Make fertile or productive (synset 200505351)
   "The course fertilized her imagination"
   is a type of: alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
   same as: fecundate, fertilise
3. Introduce semen into (a female) (synset 200052265)
   is a type of: alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
   subtypes:

   • stratify - render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand
   • bang up, impregnate, knock up, prang up - make pregnant
   • impregnate - fertilize and cause to grow
   • cross-fertilise, cross-fertilize - cause to undergo cross-fertilization
   • cross-pollinate, pollenate, pollinate - fertilize by transfering pollen
   same as: fecundate, fertilise, inseminate

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