manure
noun
excrement, especially of animals, or other refuse used as fertilizer.
manured
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past participleof manure.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof manure.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
manurenounexcrement, especially of animals, or other refuse used as fertilizer.
Example Sentences
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At Heligan, the soil was manured, aerated, and assiduously double dug for centuries; plants must have been queuing at the gates.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 2, 2019
Every boulevard shrub had been freshly manured to make the capital a little greener for its first visit, this week, from a U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
We Yahoos who pledged our manured acres and sacred honor for loans to the Yazoos are paying to the last acre, the last cow, the last pig.
From Time Magazine Archive
Within two days, both the chicken culture and a similar culture from heavily manured soil produced the same antibiotic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners—either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
