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fructify

[ fruhk-tuh-fahy, frook-, frook- ]

verb (used without object)

, fruc·ti·fied, fruc·ti·fy·ing.
  1. to bear fruit; become fruitful:

    With careful tending the plant will fructify.



verb (used with object)

, fruc·ti·fied, fruc·ti·fy·ing.
  1. to make fruitful or productive; fertilize:

    warm spring rains fructifying the earth.

fructify

/ ˈfrʊk-; ˈfrʌktɪˌfaɪ /

verb

  1. to bear or cause to bear fruit
  2. to make or become productive or fruitful
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈfructiˌfier, noun
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Other Words From

  • super·fructi·fied adjective
  • un·fructi·fied adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fructify1

First recorded in 1275–1325; Middle English fructifien, from Old French fructifier, from Latin frūctificāre; fructi-, -fy
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fructify1

C14: from Old French fructifier , from Late Latin frūctificāre to bear fruit, from Latin frūctus fruit + facere to make, produce
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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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