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fructify
[ fruhk-tuh-fahy, frook-, frook- ]
verb (used without object)
- to bear fruit; become fruitful:
With careful tending the plant will fructify.
verb (used with object)
- to make fruitful or productive; fertilize:
warm spring rains fructifying the earth.
fructify
/ ˈfrʌktɪˌfaɪ; ˈfrʊk- /
verb
- to bear or cause to bear fruit
- to make or become productive or fruitful
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Derived Forms
- ˈfructiˌfier, noun
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Other Words From
- super·fructi·fied adjective
- un·fructi·fied adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fructify1
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Example Sentences
For amongst the tart sorbs, it befits not the sweet fig to fructify.
All that produces does so only for a time; 'tis the law here below, for eternity death alone shall fructify.
His high conception of solidarity was to fructify, within a hundred years, under Philippe-Auguste, the grandson of Sugers master.
In the spring it recommences vegetation, and emits its branches into the newly-formed organs of its host, there to fructify.
Did any portion of the capital annually abstracted from the estate return to it, to fructify and increase its value?
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