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to manure

1 4.8

To spread animal or plant waste on soil to help plants grow

verb
/məˈnʊr/

: abonar

Scarce one part is manured, so here is land enough to maintain all her children, yet many starve for want, or live under a heavy burden all their lives.

And I feel like you're doing a great job manuring that manuring all fucking poop.

Examples

And I manured him.

Anemone (2025)
He also told them that unless they got fish to manure this exhausted old soil, it would come to nothing, and he showed them that in the middle of April plenty of fish would come up the brook by which they had begun to build, and taught them how to catch it, and where to get other necessary provisions; all of which they found true by experience...

Blog text (15)
So plant them into beds or ground that was manured the previous spring.
Treated as a fertilizer, Green Mulch is shipped to area farmers to till in as much as they would manure.

Academic text (1997)
Go tell them that they sowed their tribulations in the soil of their people and manured it with their own actions.

Fiction book (1991)
"Worms collaborate, through their digestive work, with man's attempts to manure and fertilize his land; hard to believe, but true."

Academic text (1999)
French "Socialist" Party's offices, Town Halls, and Vinci offices have been spray-painted and manured.

Blog text (12)
Farmers often manure their fields in the spring to enrich the soil for planting.
Before planting vegetables, it is important to manure the garden bed to promote healthy growth.
To improve crop yields, some farmers manure their land with composted organic material.

Synonyms

to muck

vsto manure

2 7.9

To spread manure on land to help plants grow

is the same action but exists as an alternative word form

to topdress

vsto manure

Specialized

8.4

To spread a thin layer of fertilizer or compost over the ground

is not limited to surface scattering and can include mixing into soil

to fertilize the field

vsto manure

3.3

Add plant food to the soil so crops grow better

is narrower, referring specifically to spreading an organic material rather than any nutrient source

Compounds

horse manure

3 3.2

Droppings from horses used to make soil richer

cow manure

NSFW

2 1.8

Dung from cows that people put on soil to help plants grow

horse manure

Informal

1 4.3

A rude informal phrase meaning nonsense or something untrue

chicken manure

1 3.0

A fertilizer made from chicken droppings that makes soil richer

green manure

Specialized

1 4.2

A crop that farmers grow and then plow into soil to add nutrients

pile of horse manure

Informal

8.8

A story or idea that is untrue and silly

How Fertilizing

to fertilize

12 3.4

to manure

1 4.8

to enrich

85 3.9

to sprinkle

100 1.1

Surface Forms

manure infinitive

manured past

manured past participle

manuring present participle

manures third person singular

Etymology

The verb manure comes from the same root manu- meaning 'hand'. It originally meant to work the land by hand, so to manure now means to spread fertilizer on the soil to help crops grow.