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Definition of Fertilize
1. Verb. Provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to. "They fertilize the trees"; "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"
Category relationships: Agriculture, Farming, Husbandry
Generic synonyms: Enrich
Specialized synonyms: Nitrify, Dung, Topdress
Derivative terms: Fertilization, Fertilizer
2. Verb. Make fertile or productive. "The course fertilized her imagination"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Derivative terms: Fecundation, Fertilizer
3. Verb. Introduce semen into (a female).
Specialized synonyms: Stratify, Bang Up, Impregnate, Knock Up, Prang Up, Impregnate, Cross-fertilise, Cross-fertilize, Cross-pollinate, Pollenate, Pollinate
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Derivative terms: Fecundation, Fertilization, Insemination, Semen
Definition of Fertilize
1. v. t. To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows.
Definition of Fertilize
1. Verb. To make (the soil) more fertile by adding nutrients to it. ¹
2. Verb. (figuratively) To make more creative or intellectually productive. ¹
3. Verb. To cause to produce offspring through insemination; to inseminate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fertilize
1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]
Medical Definition of Fertilize
1. 1. To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows. "And fertilize the field that each pretends to gain." (Byron) 2. To fecundate; as, to fertilize flower. Origin: Cf. F. Fertiliser. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fertilize
Literary usage of Fertilize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1813)
"... and at laft drained into the fields of the neighbouring grounds, to fertilize
them. ... fertilize ..."
2. Sturm's Reflections on the Works of God, and His Providence Throughout All by Christoph Christian Sturm (1832)
"MEANS WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO fertilize THE EARTH. The wisdom of God employs a ...
Here we may properly consider the means which God uses to fertilize the moral ..."
3. How to Make School Gardens: A Manual for Teachers and Pupils by Herbert Daniel Hemenway (1903)
"... How TO PREPARE AND fertilize THE LAND PERHAPS the most serious problem,
especially to the city school, after the necessary land has been obtained, is, ..."
4. The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies by Antonio de Alcedo, George Alexander Thompson (1814)
"... as it rushes down the declivities which present themselves in its course :
this river then spreads itself into different aqueducts whereby to fertilize ..."
5. The Chemistry of Commerce: A Simple Interpretation of Some New Chemistry in by Robert Kennedy Duncan (1907)
"10 CYANAMIDE AS A fertilize!! FOR POTATOES (al Not fertilized (i| fertilized with
... fertilize ..."
6. The Corn Crops: A Discussion of Maize, Kafirs, and Sorghums as Grown in the by Edward Gerrard Montgomery (1913)
"... on rather poor glacial soil at that station:l —• TABLE XXXII fertilizeRS
SUGGESTED FOR DIFFERENT CONDITIONS WHEN IT PAYS TO fertilize FOB CORN 103. ..."
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