cultivate vs gear up

cultivate and gear up both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cultivate	No	No	Yes	No
gear up	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, gear up is a hypernym of cultivate; that is, gear up is a word with a broader meaning than cultivate:

cultivate: prepare for crops
gear up: make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc

Other hypernyms of cultivate include fix, prepare, ready, set, set up.

cultivate (verb)	gear up (verb)
adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment	make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
prepare for crops
teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
promote the growth of