fertilize has definitions from the field of agriculture
1
[ verb ] (agriculture) provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to; in agriculture and gardening

Synonyms

fertilise feed

Examples

"We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"

Used in print

(Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)

Everywhere within the common pattern , however , one finds local diversity ; Greek history and culture were enduringly fertilized , and plagued , by the interplay of these conjoined yet opposed factors .

2
[ verb ] make fertile or productive

Synonyms

fertilise fecundate

Examples

"The course fertilized her imagination"

Related terms

change fertilization

3
[ verb ] introduce semen into (a female)
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