Antonyms for fertilize
ˈfɜr tlˌaɪzfer·til·ize

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1. fertilize, fertilise, feedverb

   provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to

   "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"

   Synonyms:
   fecundate, run, give, course, flow, eat, feed, feed in, fertilise, feast, inseminate, prey

2. fertilize, fecundate, fertiliseverb

   make fertile or productive

   "The course fertilized her imagination"

   Synonyms:
   inseminate, fecundate, feed, fertilise

3. inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertiliseverb

   introduce semen into (a female)

   Synonyms:
   inseminate, fecundate, feed, sow in, fertilise, sow

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1. fertilizeverb

   Synonyms:
   enrich, manure, fecundate, impregnate

How to use fertilize in a sentence?

1. Harry Emerson Fosdick:

   The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

2. Rebecca West:

   Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

3. Gib Brogan:

   As they eat, they will process that food and essentially fertilize the oceans … which is proven to be important to the health of the oceans, the oceans produce a tremendous amount of oxygen that we breathe. They moderate climate, they absorb a tremendous amount of heat that’s being produced by humans, and they provide food for billions of people.

4. Dejan Stojanovic:

   We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop and there will be our home.

5. Phil Verleger:

   A lot of truckers just won't be able to operate, if you're a farmer, you may have to leave some acres fallow, or won't fertilize as much. The macroeconomists don't get this. It's going to come back and haunt us all.

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