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cultivatingverbpresent participle of cultivate to come to have graduallycultivated a taste for opera in order to fit in with his new circle of friends acquiring, developing, forming absorbing, adopting, embracing, taking in, taking ongaining, getting, obtainingachieving, attaining, reachingfostering, nourishing, nurturing, promoting losing abandoning, deserting, forsakingcasting, discarding, ditching, dumping, flinging (off or away), jettisoning, junking, rejecting, scrapping, shedding, shucking (off), sloughing(also sluffing), throwing away, throwing out, unloading to help the growth or development ofcultivated a passion for learning among his students over the years advancing, encouraging, forwarding, fostering, furthering, incubating, nourishing, nursing, nurturing, promoting advocating, backing, championing, endorsing(also indorsing), supporting, upholdingendowing, financing, funding, patronizing, staking, subsidizing, underwritingabetting, aiding, assistingadvertising, boosting, plugging, publicizing, toutingagitating (for), campaigning (for), working (for) discouraging, frustrating, hindering, inhibiting banning, barring, enjoining, forbidding, interdicting, outlawing, preventing, prohibiting, proscribingbattling, combating(or combatting), contending (with), countering, fighting, opposingrepressing, snuffing (out), squashing, squelching, stifling, subduing, suppressingarresting, checking, halting, retardingencumbering, fettering, hobbling, impeding, interfering (with), manacling, obstructing, shackling to look after or assist the growth of by labor and carein an attempt to produce New World counterparts of the wines that he had enjoyed in Europe, Jefferson cultivated several varieties of grapes at Monticello cropping, culturing, dressing, growing, promoting, raising, rearing, tending breeding, producing, propagatingplanting, sowinggathering, gleaning, harvesting, reapinggerminating, quickening, ripening, rooting, sprouting killingdigging, extirpating, picking, plucking, pulling (up), uprootingcutting, haying, mowing to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops onwe ought to cultivate the field out back |