Word Meanings - FERTILIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: FERTILIZE

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. A. R. Wallace.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FERTILIZE)

• Cultivate
• Promote
• foster
• study
• improve
• fertilize
• till
• advance
• refine
• civilize
• nourish
• cherish
• Enrich
• Aggrandize
• endow
• store
• augment
• decorate
• enhance
• Manure
• Fertilize
• enrich

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FERTILIZE)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease

Related words: (words related to FERTILIZE)

• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• DECORATE
  To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
• CHERISHMENT
  Encouragement; comfort. Rich bounty and dear cherishment. Spenser.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• MANURE
  Any matter which makes land productive; a fertilizing substance, as the contents of stables and barnyards, dung, decaying animal or vegetable substances, etc. Dryden.
• IMPROVER
  One who, or that which, improves.
• STUDY
  1. To apply the mind to; to read and examine for the purpose of learning and understanding; as, to study law or theology; to study languages. 2. To consider attentively; to examine closely; as, to study the work of nature. Study thyself; what rank
• ENHANCEMENT
  The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• DECREASE
  1. A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength. 2. The wane of the moon. Bacon.
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• ENDOWMENT
  1. The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support. 2. That which is bestowed or settled on a person or an institution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church,
• WITHDRAWAL
  The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
• STORED
  Collected or accumulated as a reserve supply; as, stored electricity. It is charged with stored virtue. Bagehot.
• REFINED
  Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments. Refined wits who honored poesy with their pens. Peacham. -- Re*fin"ed*ly (r, adv. -- Re*fin"ed*ness, n.
• WITHDRAW
  1. To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like. Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything. Hooker. 2. To
• WITHDRAWER
  One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.
• HINDEREST
  Hindermost; -- superl. of Hind, a. Chaucer.
• STORE
  Accumulated; hoarded. Bacon.
• REENDOW
  To endow again.
• PREFINE
  To limit beforehand. Knolles.
• UNIMPROVED
  1. Not improved; not made better or wiser; not advanced in knowledge, manners, or excellence. 2. Not used; not employed; especially, not used or employed for a valuable purpose; as, unimproved opportunities; unimproved blessings. Cowper. 3. Not
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
• SELF-FERTILIZED
  Fertilized by pollen from the same flower.
• DISAUGMENT
  To diminish.
• SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT
  The aggrandizement of one's self.
• CHILD STUDY
  A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.
• DECIVILIZE
  To reduce from civilization to a savage state. Blackwood's Mag.