Synonyms of planting

planting

verb

present participle of plant

1

as in seeding

to put or set into the ground to grow

I'll plant the marigold seeds in the spring

Synonyms & Similar Words

• seeding
• drilling
• sowing
• putting in
• transplanting
• scattering
• replanting
• potting
• bedding
• broadcasting
• reseeding
• overseeding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• harvesting
• gathering
• reaping

2

as in establishing

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 & Similar Words

• establishing
• initiating
• founding
• creating
• pioneering
• launching
• introducing
• instituting
• beginning
• starting
• inaugurating
• constructing
• organizing
• constituting
• innovating
• developing
• originating
• producing
• inventing
• devising
• manufacturing
• setting up
• authoring
• expanding
• enlarging
• conceiving
• thinking (up)
• cooking (up)
• concocting
• funding
• fathering
• financing
• arranging
• fabricating
• contriving
• subsidizing
• making up
• endowing
• systematizing
• reinstituting
• reinitiating
• relaunching
• putting up
• refounding
• systemizing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• closing (down)
• shutting (up)
• phasing out
• finishing
• abolishing
• ending
• stopping
• terminating
• halting
• nullifying
• annihilating
• annulling
• winding up
• wrapping up
• rounding (off or out)

3

as in breeding

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 & Similar Words

• breeding
• implanting
• rooting
• sowing
• embedding
• lodging
• instilling
• inseminating
• inculcating
• driving
• infixing
• enrooting
• investing
• hammering
• pounding
• inoculating
• entrenching
• infusing
• steeping
• imbuing
• fixing
• suffusing
• ingraining

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of planting

In the finale, before Lee and Adam learn Aron has been killed in action in World War I, Lee is flipping through a seed catalogue, Adam is planting something, and then the telegram arrives and the two of you share this look. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026

Miller said the seedlings typically grow for about a year and are only sent for planting in regions in which specific species thrive. — Dillon Thomas, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026

Trees provide shade and clean air in congested cities, so planting more of them seems like a straightforward solution. — Nathan Rott, NPR, 21 Oct. 2026

Space plants two to three feet apart when planting in mass or as a low hedge. — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2026

One thing Crumbley does not favor is planting marigolds against aphids. — Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 16 Oct. 2026

But part of the mitigation program includes planting new trees. — Charlotte Observer, 16 Oct. 2026

An OpenAI engineer has been fired and hit with federal charges accusing him of planting a listening device in an executive conference room at the tech giant's San Francisco headquarters, according to prosecutors. — ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026

Related The OpenAI engineer accused of planting a bug allegedly had a one-way ticket booked to Saudi Arabia. — Emma Roth, The Verge, 13 Oct. 2026