"cultivating" in the verb sense
1. cultivate
foster the growth of
2. cultivate, crop, work
prepare for crops
"Work the soil"
"cultivate the land"
3. educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise
teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
"Cultivate your musical taste"
"Train your tastebuds"
"She is well schooled in poetry"
4. domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tame
adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
"domesticate oats"
"tame the soil"
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