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third-person singular simple present cultivates, present participle cultivating, simple past and past participle cultivated
To grow plants, notably crops. examples
(figurative) To nurture; to foster; to tend. quotations examples
Left also to himself by guardians […] he cultivated more his imagination than his judgment
1819, John William Polidori, The Vampyre
[…] after four years in which President Donald J. Trump had cultivated Mr. Johnson and expressed sympathy for Britain in its bitter divorce with the European Union.
2021 June 7, Mark Landler, “As a Tense Summer Looms, Northern Ireland Braces”, in The New York Times
To turn or stir soil in preparation for planting. examples