düngen — meaning in English

English meaning

• dung noun The solid waste matter of an animal; manure.
• fertilize verb To add nutrients to soil to help plants grow better.
• manure noun Animal dung used to fertilize soil.

Senses

düngen is used for these senses in English:

• dung (transitive) To fertilize with dung.
• fertilize To make (the soil) more fertile by adding nutrients to it.
• manure (archaic, literary) To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.

dung — full definition

1. noun The solid waste matter of an animal; manure.
2. verb To spread manure on land as fertiliser.

fertilize — full definition

1. verb To add nutrients to soil to help plants grow better.
2. verb To join with an egg cell to enable reproduction; to inseminate.

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