Fecundate
71fertilise — /ˈfɜtəlaɪz / (say fertuhluyz) verb (t) (fertilised, fertilising) 1. Biology a. to render (an egg, ovum, or female cell) capable of development by union with the male element, or sperm. b. to fecundate or impregnate (an animal or plant). 2. to… …
72fertilize — [v] make ready to bear, produce beget, breed, compost, cover, dress, enrich, fecundate, feed, fructify, generate, germinate, impregnate, inseminate, lime, make fruitful, make pregnant, manure, mulch, pollinate, procreate, propagate, top dress,… …
73impregnate — [v] infuse, fill; make pregnant charge, conceive, drench, fecundate, fertilize, imbrue, implant, inoculate, inseminate, leaven, overflow, percolate, permeate, pervade, procreate, produce, reproduce, saturate, seethe, soak, sodden, souse, steep,… …
74propagate — [v1] breed, reproduce bear, beget, engender, father, fecundate, fertilize, generate, grow, impregnate, increase, inseminate, make pregnant, mother, multiply, originate, procreate, produce, proliferate, raise, sire; concept 374 Ant. destroy, kill… …
75reproduce — [v1] make more copies of carbon*, clone, copy, do again, dupe*, duplicate, echo, emulate, engross, follow, imitate, knock off, manifold, match, mimeo*, mimeograph, mirror, parallel, photocopy, photograph, photostat, pirate, portray, print,… …
76fecund — a. fertile. ♦ fecundate, v.t. make fertile. ♦ fecundity, n …
77bang up — verb 1. damage or destroy as if by violence The teenager banged up the car of his mother • Syn: ↑smash up, ↑smash • Derivationally related forms: ↑smash (for: ↑smash), ↑smasher …
78cross-fertilise — verb 1. undergo cross fertilization; become fertile • Syn: ↑cross fertilize • Derivationally related forms: ↑cross fertilisation, ↑cross fertilization (for: ↑cross fertilize) • …
79impregnation — noun 1. material with which something is impregnated the impregnation, whatever it was, had turned the rock blue • Hypernyms: ↑material, ↑stuff 2. the process of totally saturating something with a substance the impregnation of wood with… …
80knock up — verb make pregnant He impregnated his wife again • Syn: ↑impregnate, ↑bang up, ↑prang up • Derivationally related forms: ↑impregnation (for: ↑impregnate) …
