fructify

/'frʌktifai/

Thân thiện

The gardener's care helped the seeds fructify in the rich soil.

Definition

1. Verb (intransitive):

   • To bear fruit; to produce fruit, especially in a botanical context.
   • To become fruitful, productive, or successful; to yield results or benefits.

2. Verb (transitive):

   • To make productive or fruitful; to cause to bear fruit or yield positive results.

Examples of Usage

• Intransitive Verb:

  • After years of careful cultivation, the orchard finally began to fructify.
  • The initial investment took time, but the project eventually fructified into a major success.

• Transitive Verb:

  • The new irrigation system fructified the arid land, turning it into fertile farmland.
  • Her mentorship fructified his raw talent, leading to a brilliant career.

Advanced Usage

• In a figurative or abstract sense: Often used to describe ideas, plans, or efforts coming to fruition.
  • Years of research finally fructified in a groundbreaking discovery.
  • Their partnership fructified the company's expansion into new markets.

Variants and Related Words

• Fructification (noun): The process of fructifying; the state of bearing fruit.
  • The fructification of the vines was abundant this season.
• Fruitful (adjective): Producing good or abundant results; fertile.
  • It was a fruitful collaboration.

Synonyms

• Bear fruit: To yield results.
• Flourish: To grow or develop in a healthy or vigorous way.
• Prosper: To be successful, especially financially.
• Yield: To produce or provide (a natural, agricultural, or industrial product).

Antonyms

• Fail: To be unsuccessful.
• Wither: To become dry and shriveled; to decline.
• Stagnate: To cease developing or progressing.

Related Phrases and Idioms

• Come to fruition: To be realized or achieved; to reach a desired result. (This is a common phrase with a similar meaning to the intransitive use of "fructify").
  • After a decade of work, her ambitious plan finally came to fruition.

Học thuật

Verb

1. bear fruit
   • the apple trees fructify
2. make productive or fruitful
   • The earth that he fructified
3. become productive or fruitful
   • The seeds fructified

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