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FECUNDATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fecundate mean? 

FECUNDATE (verb)
  The verb FECUNDATE has 2 senses:

1. make fertile or productiveplay

2. introduce semen into (a female)play

  Familiarity information: FECUNDATE used as a verb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FECUNDATE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they fecundate  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it fecundates  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: fecundated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: fecundated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: fecundating  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Make fertile or productive

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

fecundate; fertilise; fertilize

Context example:

The course fertilized her imagination

Hypernyms (to "fecundate" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

fecundation (making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Introduce semen into (a female)

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

fecundate; fertilise; fertilize; inseminate

Hypernyms (to "fecundate" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fecundate"):

stratify (render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand)

bang up; impregnate; knock up; prang up (make pregnant)

impregnate (fertilize and cause to grow)

cross-fertilise; cross-fertilize (cause to undergo cross-fertilization)

cross-pollinate; pollenate; pollinate (fertilize by transfering pollen)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

fecundation (creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant)


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