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fertilise

fertilise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of fertilize.

Meaning of fertilize

Verb

fertilize (third-person singular simple present fertilizes, present participle fertilizing, simple past and past participle fertilized)

  1. To make (the soil) more fertile by adding nutrients to it.
  2. (figuratively) To make more creative or intellectually productive.
    • to fertilize one's imagination
  3. To cause to produce offspring through insemination; to inseminate.

Forms of fertilise

third-person singular presentfertilises
present participlefertilising
past participlefertilised
pastfertilised

Origin of fertilise

From fertile + -ise.

Words formed from fertilise

Questions about fertilise

What is fertilise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Fertilise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of fertilize.

Words near fertilise in the dictionary

  1. fertilins
  2. fertilisable
  3. fertilisation
  4. fertilisational
  5. fertilisations
  6. fertilise
  7. fertilised
  8. fertiliser
  9. fertilisers
  10. fertilises
  11. fertilising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fertilise (page history and authors); fertilize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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