"fertilize" in the verb sense
1. fertilize, fertilise, feed
provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
"We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"
2. fertilize, fecundate, fertilise
make fertile or productive
"The course fertilized her imagination"
3. inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise
introduce semen into (a female)
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