plant | Definition of plant

plant

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of plant

1 to put or set into the ground to grow

I'll plant the marigold seeds in the spring

Synonyms of plant

drill, put in, seed, sow

Words Related to plant

replant, transplant

broadcast, scatter

overseed, reseed

Near Antonyms of plant

gather, harvest, reap

2 to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of

soon the sect had planted churches across the breadth of the colony

Synonyms of plant

begin, constitute, establish, found, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, institute, introduce, launch, pioneer, set up, start

Words Related to plant

author, father, originate

conceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), create, devise, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture, produce, think (up)

construct, put up

develop, enlarge, expand

endow, finance, fund, subsidize

arrange, organize, systematize, systemize

refound, reinitiate, reinstitute, relaunch

Near Antonyms of plant

abolish, annihilate, annul, nullify

end, finish, halt, stop, terminate

round (off or out), wind up, wrap up

Antonyms of plant

close (down), phase out, shut (up)

3 to set permanently in the consciousness or mind-set

a profound respect for Mother Nature that had been planted by long experience with hurricanes

Synonyms of plant

breed, enroot, implant, inculcate, infix, inseminate, instill, sow

Words Related to plant

drive, hammer, pound

embed (also imbed), entrench (also intrench), fix, lodge, root

imbue, infuse, ingrain (also engrain), inoculate, invest, steep, suffuse