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cultivate vs overcultivate

overcultivate vs cultivate

cultivate and overcultivate both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
cultivate No No Yes No
overcultivate No No Yes No
As verbs, overcultivate is a hyponym of cultivate; that is, overcultivate is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cultivate:
  • cultivate: prepare for crops
  • overcultivate: to exhaust by excessive cultivation
Other hyponyms of cultivate include overcrop.
cultivate (verb) overcultivate (verb)
adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment to exhaust by excessive cultivation
prepare for crops
teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
promote the growth of
Difference between cultivate and overcultivate

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