fertilize

Verb

• provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
  • "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"
• make fertile or productive
  • "The course fertilized her imagination"
• introduce semen into (a female)
• To make (the soil) more fertile by adding nutrients to it.
• To make more creative or intellectually productive.
• To cause to produce offspring through insemination; to inseminate.

Examples

• to fertilize one's imagination

Synonyms

fecundate, feed, fertilise, inseminate