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overcultivate vs cultivate

cultivate vs overcultivate

overcultivate and cultivate both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
overcultivate No No Yes No
cultivate No No Yes No
As verbs, cultivate is a hypernym of overcultivate; that is, cultivate is a word with a broader meaning than overcultivate:
  • overcultivate: to exhaust by excessive cultivation
  • cultivate: prepare for crops
Other hypernyms of overcultivate include crop, work.
overcultivate (verb) cultivate (verb)
to exhaust by excessive cultivation 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
Difference between overcultivate and cultivate

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