† disfertilev.
Obsolete.
transitive. To deprive of fertility; to make barren.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [verb (transitive)] > render infertile
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disfertile1606
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barrenize1652
mine1937
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 46 A broad standing Poole..whose infectious breath Corrupts the Aire, and Earth dis-fertileth.
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