Definitions for fertilize

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fertilize fer·ti·lize

Spelling: [fur-tl-ahyz]

IPA: /ˈfɜr tlˌaɪz/

Fertilize is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 21 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 185 anagrams from letters in fertilize (eefiilrtz).

Definitions for fertilize

verb (used with object)

1. Biology. to render (the female gamete) capable of development by uniting it with the male gamete. to fecundate or impregnate (an animal or plant).
2. to make fertile; enrich:
3. to make productive.

Origin of fertilize

First recorded in 1640-50; fertile + -ize

Examples for fertilize

The animals proved to be a great attraction as well as a handy way to fertilize the grass and keep it short.

She had also learned how to draw moisture from the land and how to fertilize it.

If enthusiasm were suffered to penetrate and fertilize her soul!

I'll fertilize their damned Earth with their own black blood.

It was easier to break new land than to fertilize that long in use.

I fertilize them and I shower them, but they stubbornly refuse to do well.

Some is sold as a liming agent, and some is disposed of in landfills (though it used to be sent to Colorado to fertilize crops).

I might fertilize him, I might prune him, and I might use insecticide on him.

All 175 goes to form new soil, or to fertilize or mulch the old.

All that ash will fertilize the ground, and it will all be green.