manure
Syllables: ma·nureUK/məˈnjʊə//məˈnʊɹ/
manure verb: to cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
Verb
manure (third-person singular simple present manures, present participle manuring, simple past and past participle manured)
- To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
- A woman that wandring in our coaſtes hath bought / A plot for price: where ſhe a citie ſet: / To whom we gaue the ſtrond for to manure.1557 July 1, Virgil, “The Second Boke of Virgiles Aenæis”, in Henry [Howard, Earl] of Surrey, transl., edited by William Bolland, Certain Bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis, Turned into English Meter...
- Manure thyself then; to thyself be approved; / And with vain, outward things be no more moved.1633, John Donne, Epistle to Mr. Rowland Woodward
- To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).
- The farmer manured his fallow field.
- My Lord of Hereford here whom you call King, / Is a foule traitour to proud Herefords King, / And if you crowne him let me propheſie, / The bloud of Engliſh ſhall manure the ground, / And future ages groane for this foule act, [...]1595 December 9 (first known performance), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedie of King Richard the Second. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Simmes for Androw Wise, […], published 1597...
Noun
manure (countable and uncountable, plural manures)
- Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.
- I hate manure!1985, Biff Tannen (portrayed by Thomas F. Wilson), Back to the Future.
- M, they will cover your grave with manure1988, Dave Mustaine, "Hook in Mouth", Megadeth, So Far, So Good... So What!.
- Synonyms:
- dung
- Any fertilizing substance, whether of animal origin or not; fertiliser.
- vegetable manure [= green manure]
- livestock manures
- Rubbish; nonsense; bullshit.
- “You know the police think I killed Marge, don't you?”
“What a load of manure! I couldn't believe it when I read the paper.”2005, Ginny Aiken, Design on a Crime, page 217
- “You know the police think I killed Marge, don't you?”
manure meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
manure in Hindi
- excrement
- खाद khād, पांस pāns
manure in Tamil
- excrement
- இயற்கை உரம் iyaṟkai uram
manure in Urdu
- excrement
- کھاد khād
manure in Bengali
- excrement
- সার śar
More languagesFewer languages
- manure in Telugu
- ఎరువు eruvu, గొబ్బరము gobbaramu
- manure in Malayalam
- വളം, വളമിടുക
- manure in Kannada
- ಗೊಬ್ಬರ gobbara
- manure in Punjabi
- ਖਾਦ khādă
- manure in Pashto
- غوشېړ ǧošéṛ, مېزر mezár, ډېرۍ ḍerǝ́y
- manure in Arabic
- سَمَّدَ sammada, رَوْث rawṯ, سَمَاد samād, بِرَاز birāz
- manure in Malay
- baja
- manure in Indonesian
- pupuk
- manure in Thai
- ปุ๋ย bpǔi, ปุ๋ยคอก bpǔi-kɔ̂ɔk
- manure in Vietnamese
- phân, phân bón
- manure in Myanmar
- မြေဩဇာ mreau:ja
Examples of manure in a sentence
- Homemade compost and the load of manure we get from a friendly farmer may not be enough to compensate for what has leached from the ground.2014 April 21, Mary Keen, “You can still teach an old gardener new tricks: Even the hardiest of us gardeners occasionally learn useful new...
- I have never made any experiment upon this manure; but there is great reason to suppose it must contain saccharine matter; and this will account for its powerful effects.a. 1813, Sir Humphry Davy, "Lecture VI" in Elements of Agricultural Chemistry (1840 reprint)
- The roots of plants, disengaged from the soil in the process of tilling and cleaning it, are also employed as a vegetable manure.1841, Jesse Buel, The Farmers' Instructor. Consisting of Essays, Practical Directions, and Hints for the Management of the Farm and the...
Synonyms of manure
Forms of manure
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | manures |
| present participle | manuring |
| past participle | manured |
| past | manured |
| Noun | |
| plural | manures |
Origin of manure
From Middle English maynouren, manuren (“to supervise, toil”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman meinourer and Old French manovrer (whence also English maneuver, or in French manœuvrer) from Vulgar Latin *manuoperare (“work by hand”), from Latin manū (“by hand”) + operārī (“to work”). Displaced native (in the plural) Old English mes.
Words formed from manure
Phrases with manure
Words that rhyme with manure
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- muir
- obscure
- amour
- assure
- boor
- immure
- impure
- lure
- recure
- immature
- inure
- moor
- cour
- Darfur
- demure
- du jour
- fure
- insecure
- liqueur
- mure
- reassure
- roture
- Ruhr
- unsure
- adure
- allure
- bonheur du jour
- bonjour
- brochure
- bure
- chaussure
- combure
- couture
- de jour
- dhuhr
- dure
- guipure
- Kapur
- L'Anse Amour
- Namur
- parkour
- parure
- plat du jour
- poseur
- purpure
- smoor
- soup du jour
- spoor
Questions about manure
- What does manure mean?
- Manure means to cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
- What is manure in Hindi?
- Manure in Hindi is खाद (khād), पांस (pāns). See Manure meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use manure in a sentence?
- Homemade compost and the load of manure we get from a friendly farmer may not be enough to compensate for what has leached from the ground.
- What part of speech is manure?
- Manure can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce manure?
- Manure is pronounced /məˈnjʊə/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of manure?
- The past tense of manure is manured.
Words near manure in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: manure (page history and authors); ఎరువు (Telugu) (page history and authors); manure (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ಗೊಬ್ಬರ (Kannada) (page history and authors); ਖਾਦ (Punjabi) (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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