gear up vs cultivate

gear up and cultivate both are verbs.

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

As verbs, cultivate is a hyponym of gear up; that is, cultivate is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than gear up:

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

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