fertilize
IPA: fˈɝtʌɫaɪz
verb
- To make (the soil) more fertile by adding nutrients to it.
- (figuratively) To make more creative or intellectually productive.
- To cause to produce offspring through insemination; to inseminate.
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Examples of "fertilize" in Sentences
- A good way to determine when to fertilize is to wait until you have mowed the lawn twice and that means you actually had to mow because of lawn growth and not weed growth.
- Starting to prove that insects fertilize the flowers, his carefully observed facts only served to demonstrate in many cases the reverse -- that _insects could not fertilize_ flowers in the manner he had declared.
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