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fruitified

fruitified is the simple past and past participle of fruitify.

Meaning of fruitify

Verb

fruitify (third-person singular simple present fruitifies, present participle fruitifying, simple past and past participle fruitified)

  1. (intransitive) To produce fruit, seeds, or spores; to fruit.
    • The most scrupulous care is always taken that seeds furnished from this house shall be new and sound, certain to fruitify and always of the very best sorts.1880, Frank I. Jervis, The Great West, page 116
  2. (intransitive) To come to fruition; to succeed or be fulfilled.
    • The work of the church in Boston has fruitified abundantly under the administration of Archbishop Williams; the Catholic population has grown and new churches have arisen to accommodate the growth.1892, Daniel P. Toomey, Thomas Charles Quinn, Massachusetts of Today
  3. (transitive) To bring to fruition; To fulfill or make a success of.
    • It fruitifies not one year's work but all the work that has been done since the idea Of the American Gas Association was ever conceived.1920, American Gas Journal - Volume 113, page 399
  4. To make fruitful; to enrich.
    • America has given to the miner, means of exhaustless wealth ; to the rancher, grazing lands for the cattle upon a thousand hills ; to the farmer, fertile lands fruitified by the mouldering vegetation of countless ages; to the geologist, evidence of nature's marvels carved in the everlasting rocks...1880, Frank I. Jervis, The Great West, page 61

Questions about fruitified

What is fruitified the simple past and past participle of?
Fruitified is the simple past and past participle of fruitify.

Words near fruitified in the dictionary

  1. fruitier
  2. fruities
  3. fruitiest
  4. fruitification
  5. fruitifications
  6. fruitified
  7. fruitifies
  8. fruitify
  9. fruitifying
  10. fruitily
  11. fruitiness

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