🌱cultivate

verb
/ˈkʌltɪveɪt/

Meaning

to prepare and use land for crops; to develop a quality or relationship
to grow crops or plants; to develop or improve something

Example Sentences

Farmers cultivate the land to grow rice.

Farmers cultivate rice in the paddy fields.

Example Expressions

cultivate friendship

Synonyms

grow, nurture, develop, foster, promote
Entry 1
grow, nurture, develop, foster, promote
Entry 2
grow, develop, foster, nurture

Antonyms

neglect, abandon, destroy
Entry 1
neglect, abandon
Entry 2
neglect, abandon, destroy

Collocations

cultivate land, cultivate crops, cultivate skills, cultivate habits, cultivate carefully, cultivate successfully, cultivate organically, cultivate extensively, cultivate relationships
Entry 1
cultivate land, cultivate crops, cultivate skills, cultivate habits
Entry 2
cultivate carefully, cultivate successfully, cultivate organically, cultivate extensively, cultivate relationships

Related Vocabularies

To take in and understand fully; to absorb and integrate ideas, knowledge, or experience.
To strongly encourage or urge someone to do something.
to be filled with love or admiration for
To reduce the severity or intensity of damage or problems.
To become real or actual; to appear suddenly or in a physical form.
to demand firmly; to state persistently

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