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to recultivate

to recultivate

6.7
Prepare land again to grow crops on it
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˈkʌltɪˌveɪt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : recultivar
  • Vice President Dr. Sai Mauk Kham said in a meeting with flood victims that he was there to help flood victims recultivate farmlands inundated by the previous month's heavy rains.

Examples

  • To improve soil health, we need to recultivate the land that has been fallow for several seasons.

  • The Hemp Industries Association fights the good fight to recultivate a potentially trillion-dollar-a-year industry, agricultural hemp, for family farmers and local independent businesses of all sorts.

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  • After years of neglect, the farmers decided to recultivate the abandoned fields to grow crops again.

  • The community came together to recultivate the local park, bringing life back to the once-neglected area.

Synonyms

to cultivate
vsto recultivate
38 4.0

To prepare land for growing crops

refers to doing that again after a period of not using the land
to reclaim
vsto recultivate
25 4.7

To make land or buildings useful again by fixing them

focuses on preparing land for crops again rather than general restoration
to revegetate
vsto recultivate
  • Specialized
1 6.8

To make bare land grow plants again

aims at preparing land for crops again rather than only adding plant cover

Antonyms

to abandon
773 3.1

Leave someone or something behind permanently and without care

to neglect
256 3.8

Fail to care for someone or something you should look after

How Cultivated

to recultivate
  • Specialized
6.7
to prepare
∞ 1.0
to clear
∞ 1.5
to leave the field fallow
  • Specialized
7.7

Surface Forms

recultivate infinitive
recultivated past
recultivated past participle
recultivating present participle
recultivates third person singular

Morphology

recultivate = cultivate (transparent) = re + cultivate

The meaning is the regular and easily inferable 'do again' sense of re- added to 'cultivate'.

Etymology

Recultivate starts with re- 'again' and the rest is cultivate, which comes from a Latin word meaning 'to till' or 'care for' the soil and is the same root as culture. So, recultivate means to 'farm or grow land again' after it has been unused.