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plant

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of plant

a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods

  • a furniture plant that employs hundreds of people
Synonyms of plant

factory, manufactory, mill, shop, works, workshop
Words Related to plant

sweatshop

atelier, studio, workplace, workroom

yard

plant

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of plant

1 to put or set into the ground to grow

  • Iʼll plant the marigold seeds in the spring
Synonyms of plant

drill, put in, seed, sow
Words Related to plant

bed

replant, transplant

broadcast, scatter

pot

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

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