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Fertilise

verb
1.
Make fertile or productive.  Synonyms: fecundate, fertilize.
2.
Provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to.  Synonyms: feed, fertilize.
3.
Introduce semen into (a female).  Synonyms: fecundate, fertilize, inseminate.



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"Fertilise" Quotes from Famous Books



... of rock, Patrick Lavelle had laid the clay for his potatoes. He had carried it on his shoulders, every clod, and Moya had gathered the seaweed to fertilise it. She had her small garden there, too, of sea-pinks and the like, which rather encouraged the Islanders in their opinion of her strangeness. In Achill the struggle for life is too keen to admit of any love ...
— An Isle in the Water • Katharine Tynan

... town could not sink into utter dulness. What do we see now?" He raised his hand and grew rhetorical. "The crassest Toryism sweeping all before it, and everywhere depositing its mud—which chokes and does not fertilise. We have athletic clubs, we have a free library, we are better drained and cleaner and healthier and more bookish, with all, than in the old times; but for politics—alas! A base level of selfish and purblind materialism—personified ...
— Our Friend the Charlatan • George Gissing



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