fecundate

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fecundate (third-person singular simple present fecundates, present participle fecundating, simple past and past participle fecundated)

To make fertile.
To inseminate.
- 1837, Michael Ryan, The Philosophy of Marriage, in Its Social, Moral, and Physical Relations; with an Account of the Diseases of the Genito-urinary Organs which Impair or Destroy the Reproductive Function; and Induce a Variety of Complaints; with the Physiology of Generation in the Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms [...], London: John Churchill, Princes' Street, Soho, →OCLC, page 210:
  The pollen of plants is the fecundating power, and consists of a number of small sacs, invisible to the naked eye, in which a fluid exists, which is analogous to the spermatic fluid in man and animals.

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to make fertile

Bulgarian: правя плодовит (pravja plodovit)
French: féconder (fr)
Romanian: fecunda (ro)
Russian: де́лать плодоро́дным impf (délatʹ plodoródnym)
Spanish: fecundar (es)

to inseminate

Bulgarian: оплождам (oploždam)
Catalan: fecundar (ca)
French: féconder (fr)
Irish: toirchigh
Russian: оплодотворя́ть (ru) impf (oplodotvorjátʹ), оплодотвори́ть (ru) pf (oplodotvorítʹ)
Spanish: fecundar (es)
Swedish: befrukta (sv)

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fecundate

second-person singular voseo imperative of fecundar combined with te