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Webster 1913 Edition
Fertilize
Fer′ti-lize
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Fertilized
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fertilizing
.] [Cf. F.
fertiliser
.] 1.
To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive;
as, to
. fertilize
land, soil, ground, and meadowsAnd
fertilize
the field that each pretends to gain. Byron.
2.
To fecundate;
as, to
. fertilize
flowerA. R. Wallace.
Webster 1828 Edition
Fertilize
FER'TILIZE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
fertilize
fertilize
English
Alternative forms
- fertilise (mostly British)
Verb
fertilize (third-person singular simple present fertilizes, present participle fertilizing, simple past and past participle fertilized)
- To make (the soil) more fertile by adding nutrients to it.
- (figuratively) To make more creative or intellectually productive.
- to fertilize one's imagination
- 2014 August 8, Rupert Christiansen, “The truth about falsettos [print version: 12 August 2014, p. R8]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
- He [countertenor Anthony Roth Constanzo] also enjoys being the catalyst whereby opera fertilises other art forms: recently, he's collaborated with Japanese kabuki actors, and a project with dancers from New York City Ballet is in the offing.
- To cause to produce offspring through insemination; to inseminate.
Translations
to make fertile by adding nutrients
|
to make creative or productive
|
to make pregnant — see impregnate
Portuguese
Verb
fertilize
- First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of fertilizar
- Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você?) present subjunctive of fertilizar
- Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of fertilizar
- Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of fertilizar