plant

plant

verb

Definition of PLANT

1

to put or set into the ground to grow <I'll plant the marigold seeds in the spring>

Synonyms drill, put in, seed, sow

Related Words bed; replant, transplant; broadcast, scatter; pot; overseed, reseed

Near Antonyms 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 begin, constitute, establish, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, institute, introduce, launch, pioneer, plant, set up, start

Related Words 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 abolish, annihilate, annul, nullify; end, finish, halt, stop, terminate; round (off or out), wind up, wrap up

Antonyms 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 breed, enroot, inculcate, infix, inseminate, instill, plant, sow

Related Words drive, hammer, pound; embed (also imbed), entrench (also intrench), fix, lodge, root; imbue, infuse, ingrain (also engrain), inoculate, invest, steep, suffuse