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    They plan to cultivate the land.
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    A great writer works at cultivating her craft.
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    I just moved to the city, but I'm spending the time needed to cultivate some good friendships.
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    For six months, Dodgson had patiently cultivated this man, who had grown more obnoxious and arrogant with each meeting.  (source)
    cultivated = developed (a relationship)
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    Then you better cultivate those beans down on Mel's corner, because it's kind of low down there, and you won't get the Deere into that field this week if you let it go till after this rain.  (source)
    cultivate = work to grow
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    The Advanced Language of Beekeeping, Apiary Science, Bee Pollination, Bulfinch's Age of Fable, The Myths of Greece, The Cultivation of Honey, Bee Legends Around the World, Mary Through the Ages.  (source)
    Cultivation = development
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Dad said the hills around Welch were too steep for cultivating much of anything.†  (source)
    cultivating = developing, growing, or preparing to grow crops
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    The path wound on and on, snaking through unkempt fields and groves of uncultivated trees, wild with brambles and bushes.†  (source)
    uncultivated = not developed
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncultivated means not and reverses the meaning of cultivated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    I'd sho buy that cultivator at that figure.†  (source)
    cultivator = someone who grows crops or enhances other growth or development
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    And that cultivates deceit, for I don't tell them I'm awake—O no!  (source)
    cultivates = enhances development of
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    And, indeed, if it be the design of Providence to extirpate these savages in order to make room for cultivators of the earth, it seems not improbable that rum may be the appointed means.†  (source)
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    On her land were two cleared, cultivatable fields of about thirty acres each.†  (source)
    cultivatable = can be made suitable for growing crops; or able to be grown, developed, or enhanced
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    Those of the dyed barbarians who had chosen the cultivable tracts were, in comparison with those who had left their marks here, as writers on paper beside writers on parchment.†  (source)
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