MANURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does manure mean? 

• MANURE (noun)
  The noun MANURE has 1 sense:

1. any animal or plant material used to fertilize land especially animal excreta usually with litter material

  Familiarity information: MANURE used as a noun is very rare.

• MANURE (verb)
  The verb MANURE has 1 sense:

1. spread manure, as for fertilization

  Familiarity information: MANURE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any animal or plant material used to fertilize land especially animal excreta usually with litter material

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("manure" is a kind of...):

organic; organic fertiliser; organic fertilizer (a fertilizer that is derived from animal or vegetable matter)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "manure"):

chicken manure (chicken excreta used as fertilizer)

cow manure (cow excreta used as fertilizer)

green manure (a growing crop that is plowed under to enrich soil)

horse manure (horse excreta used as fertilizer)

night soil (human excreta used as fertilizer)

Derivation:

manure (spread manure, as for fertilization)

• MANURE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they manure    ... he / she / it manures   
Past simple: manured   
Past participle: manured   
-ing form: manuring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spread manure, as for fertilization

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

manure; muck

Hypernyms (to "manure" is one way to...):

scatter; spread; spread out (strew or distribute over an area)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

manure (any animal or plant material used to fertilize land especially animal excreta usually with litter material)

 Context examples 

The use of biogas — mainly methane and carbon dioxide released from the anaerobic digestion of organic matter such as food, crops, or livestock manure — as a fuel has long been popular in India.

(Shift to biogas helps revive forests, SciDev.Net)

When excess artificial fertilizer from crops, or manure from the meat industry, runs off the land and into rivers and seas, it feeds algae which bloom and then cause oxygen depletion as they decompose.

(Oceans running out of oxygen at unprecedented rate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Not valuing now the root whence it sprang; having found that it was of a sort which nothing but gold dust could manure, I have but half a liking to the blossom, especially when it looks so artificial as just now.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The method is this: in an acre of ground you bury, at six inches distance and eight deep, a quantity of acorns, dates, chestnuts, and other mast or vegetables, whereof these animals are fondest; then you drive six hundred or more of them into the field, where, in a few days, they will root up the whole ground in search of their food, and make it fit for sowing, at the same time manuring it with their dung: it is true, upon experiment, they found the charge and trouble very great, and they had little or no crop.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)