FERTILISE    使肥沃

AGRICULTURAL WORK INTENDING to CAUSE TO BECOME FERTILE.
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard word for fertilising fields with manure is fèn 糞.
Modern Chinese Criteria
使肥沃 施肥料 使豐饒 施肥 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • AGRICULTURE　WORK IN FIELDS TO REAR USEFUL PLANTS.  (anc: 15/0, child: 4)
  • WORK　Make an EFFORT ENDURINGLY CONFORMING to a PLAN, IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE an AIM, and OFTEN IN ORDER TO be PAID a SALARY. (anc: 14/0, child: 7)
  • EFFORT　DELIBERATE DILIGENT TRY:attempt to SUCCEED in an ACTION. (anc: 13/0, child: 2)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 8.15

    • Words (1 items)

    糞  fèn OC: puns MC: pi̯un 6 Attributions

    The standard word for fertilising fields with manure is fèn 糞.

      Syntactic words
    • vt(oN)fertilise the contextually determinate place
    • vt[oN]fertilise the fields
    • vtoNdung; to dung, to fertilise with dung