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Verb fertilize has 3 senses
- fertilize, fertilise, feed - provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to; "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"
--1 is one way to enrich
Sample sentence:
They fertilize the trees
- fertilize, fecundate, fertilise - make fertile or productive; "The course fertilized her imagination"
--2 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise - introduce semen into (a female)
--3 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
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