cultivate
verb
[ ˈkʌltɪveɪt ]
• prepare and use (land) for crops or gardening.
• "the peasants who cultivated the land became its owners"
Similar:
till,
plough,
dig,
turn,
hoe,
farm,
work,
prepare,
fertilize,
mulch,
• try to acquire or develop (a quality or skill).
• "he cultivated an air of indifference"
Origin:
mid 17th century: from medieval Latin cultivat- ‘prepared for crops’, from the verb cultivare, from cultiva (terra) ‘arable (land)’, from colere ‘cultivate, inhabit’.
