FERTILISE

• FERTILISE (verb)
  The verb FERTILISE has 3 senses:

1. make fertile or productive
2. provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
3. introduce semen into (a female)

  Familiarity information: FERTILISE used as a verb is uncommon.

• FERTILISE (verb)

Meaning:

Make fertile or productive

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

fecundate; fertilise; fertilize

Context example:

The course fertilized her imagination

Hypernyms (to "fertilise" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Meaning:

Provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

fertilize; fertilise; feed

Context example:

We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants

Hypernyms (to "fertilise" is one way to...):

enrich (make better or improve in quality)

Domain category:

agriculture; farming; husbandry (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fertilise"):

nitrify (treat (soil) with nitrates)

dung (fertilize or dress with dung)

topdress (scatter manure or fertilizer over (land))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Meaning:

Introduce semen into (a female)

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

fecundate; inseminate; fertilise; fertilize

Hypernyms (to "fertilise" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fertilise"):

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)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody