verb
- Provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to.
- usage: "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"
- Make fertile or productive.
- usage: "The course fertilized her imagination"
- Introduce semen into (a female. ).
- synonyms: inseminate, fecundate, fertilise
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