Germinate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To cause to sprout or grow.
  • verb-intransitive. To begin to sprout or grow.
  • verb-intransitive. To come into existence: An idea germinated in his mind.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To sprout or produce buds.
  • v. To cause to grow.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ.
  • v. To cause to sprout.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To act as a germ; begin to undergo development toward a more complete form or state; form or be formed into an embryo, as an impregnated ovum.
  • Specifically, to sprout; bud; shoot; begin to vegetate or grow, as a plant or its seed.
  • To cause to sprout; put forth; produce.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. work out
  • v. cause to grow or sprout
  • v. produce buds, branches, or germinate
  • Antonym
    die   
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    sprout    bud    shoot    cause    germ    grow    burgeon    germin    generate    pullulate   
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