fructify
/'frʌktifai/
Definition
Verb (intransitive):
- To bear fruit; to produce fruit, especially in a botanical context.
- To become fruitful, productive, or successful; to yield results or benefits.
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.
Verb
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bear fruit
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the apple trees fructify
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make productive or fruitful
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The earth that he fructified
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become productive or fruitful
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The seeds fructified
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