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To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows.

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  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.
  2. v. t. To fecundate; as, to fertilize flower.
  3. v. provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
  4. v. make fertile or productive
  5. v. introduce semen into (a female)
  6. 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.
  7. v:100 v. provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to v. make fertile or productive