to plant
- verb
- /plænt/
- The police radio that Jeffrey planted under the bed and Frank's radio both start broadcasting.
You know, a couple years ago, Saudi Arabia planted spies inside Twitter.
- You know, a couple years ago, Saudi Arabia planted spies inside Twitter.
- You learn how to plant bombs on ships, all that kind of stuff.
- So they take their detective who looks exactly like her and plants her in the house.
- You're we we planted a magnet in it and it's in my hand.
- The FBI planted a transmitter in her head.
Examples
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The victim alleged that his attackers said they could easily plant guns or drugs on him and kill him.
Academic text (2009) -
Five burglars break in to photograph documents and plant listening devices at the Democratic National Committee headquarters located inside the landmark building.
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So they take their detective who looks exactly like her and plants her in the house.
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And if you listen to the podcast carefully, I planted some things there on purpose.
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I stole all the stuff and planted it on Brook.
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If there were electronic bugs and tiny hidden cameras to plant, he would do that as well.
Academic text (2002) -
And was it in November, Agent Brandon, that your team planted bugs in that establishment?
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The undercover agent planted listening devices in the suspect's office without anyone noticing.
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She planted a hidden camera in the room to observe the meeting secretly.
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During the investigation, they discovered that someone had planted false evidence to mislead the police.
Antonyms
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
A place where old paper, glass, and plastic are cleaned and made ready to be used again
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A tiny living part of a plant with a stiff wall, green chloroplasts, and a large storage space inside
Large tropical tree often kept indoors as a houseplant that can make natural rubber
A small garden plant with white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds
A plant with long narrow leaves and small white or pink flowers often grown indoors
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A poisonous plant with bell-shaped flowers and shiny black berries used to make atropine
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A place where dirty water and other waste are cleaned and made safe
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A plant in the potato and tomato family that can be dangerous to eat
The part of a company that builds, maintains, and looks after its buildings and machines
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A sickness that harms plants, often caused by fungi, bacteria, or viruses
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A natural chemical in plants that controls their growth and responses
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A plant grown for its leaves that are dried and made into cigarettes or cigars
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A plant with special tubes that carry water and nutrients, like ferns or trees
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A South American garden plant with green, purple, or red leaves and small woolly flower spikes
A South American herb with colorful leaves and small woolly flower spikes grown for gardens
A plant that grows in very wet, soft ground like bogs and marshes and can live in poor soil
A bush that grows small flat beans you can eat, often served as a vegetable
A flowering plant with colorful, often fragrant flowers that look like butterflies
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A tropical plant that grows peppers used in cooking or as spice
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A marsh plant from northern California and Oregon with twisted cup-shaped leaves that trap insects and hanging yellow-green flowers
A tropical shrub with purple or red tube-shaped flowers and leaves with patterns like a human face
A large tropical shrub with big hand-shaped leaves and spiny seed pods that give seeds used to make castor oil
A large tropical bush with wide leaves that has seeds used for castor oil and contains a poison called ricin
How Secret
Surface Forms
Etymology
Plant meaning to place something secretly comes from the basic sense 'to put in a place', the same idea as planting a tree. That's why to plant evidence or a device is to hide or put it there on purpose, like setting something into the ground.