Fecundate
61fertilize — verb 1) the field was fertilized Syn: feed, mulch, compost, green manure, manure, dress, top dress, add fertilizer to 2) these orchids are fertilized by insects Syn: pollinate, cross pollinate, cross fertilize …
62impregnate — verb 1) a pad impregnated with natural oils Syn: infuse, soak, steep, saturate, drench; permeate, pervade, suffuse, imbue 2) the woman he had impregnated Syn: make/get pregnant, inseminate …
63beget — v 1. father, sire, procreate, generate, engender, get; breed, propagate, reproduce, spawn; impregnate, Biol. fecundate, Biol. fertilize. 2. cause, produce, effect, effectuate, make happen, bring about, bring to pass, give rise to, occasion …
64fertilize — v 1. fecundate, impregnate, Sl. knock up, inseminate, pollinate. 2. fructify, enrich, feed, dress, treat the soil, manure …
65fructify — v 1. fruit, bear fruit, flower, bloom, blossom. 2. fertilize, enrich; fecundate, prolificate …
66impregnate — v 1. inseminate, make pregnant, get with child or young, Sl. knock up; fertilize, fructify, make fruitful, fecundate; beget, create, procreate, engender, generate. 2. permeate, spread throughout, overspread, fill, suffuse, imbue, imbrue; soak,… …
67inseminate — v 1. sow seed, inject seed into, plant, implant, set, sow, seed, seed down; fertilize, spermatize, pollinate, pollinize, cross fertilize, cross pollinate, cross pollinize; breed, propagate, proliferate, multiply. 2. impregnate, make pregnant, get …
68multiply — v 1. double, duplicate, make twofold, redouble, triple, triplicate, quadruple, quadruplicate, quintuple, quintuplicate, sextuple, septuple, septupli cate, octuple, decuple, make tenfold, make numerous or multitudinous; increase, augment, add to,… …
69proliferate — v 1. increase, enlarge, make larger, aggrandize; spread, expand, extend, spread out, grow rife or rampant, branch out, Pathol. metastasize; widen, thicken, lengthen, prolong, protract; grow, wax, swell, inflate; elevate, raise, boost. 2. multiply …
70fertilize — fer•ti•lize [[t]ˈfɜr tlˌaɪz[/t]] v. t. lized, liz•ing 1) dvl a) to render (the female gamete) capable of development by uniting it with the male gamete b) to fecundate or impregnate (an animal, plant, or other organism) 2) agr. to make fertile;… …
