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Verb cultivate has 4 senses
- cultivate - foster the growth of
Sample sentence:
They cultivate rye in the field
- cultivate, crop, work - prepare for crops; "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land"
--2 is one way to fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise - train to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry"
--3 is one way to polish, refine, fine-tune, down
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tame - adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil"
--4 is one way to adapt, accommodate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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