Synonyms for compost
ˈkɒm poʊstcom·post

Princeton's WordNet

1. compostverb

   a mixture of decaying vegetation and manure; used as a fertilizer

2. compostverb

   convert to compost

   "compost organic debris"

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1. fertilize, fernlize

   Submitted by Unicorn_fnaf on April 21, 2022  

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1. compostnoun

   Synonyms:
   manure, fertilizer, fertilizing mixture

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1. List of paraphrases for "compost":

   composting, composted

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1. Jenn Tompkins:

   It changes the mindset of people when they know where food comes from, pretty soon they'll have tomato plants and be turning the chicken manure into compost.

2. Farmer Phub Zam:

   I apply organic manure that I compost right at home, the imported vegetables do not taste so good.

3. Seattle Mayor Ed Murray:

   Seattle is only weeks into our nation-leading program, and it looks like we are well on our way to achieving 38,000 additional tons of compost per year, our goal for year three of the program.

4. Farmer Phub Zam:

   Now, from leaves to cow dung to chicken poop, everything is used, i have no trash, only compost.

5. Masanobu Fukuoka:

   One thing is all things. To resolve one matter, one must resolve all matters. Changing one thing changes all things. Once I made the decision to sow rice in the fall, I found that I could also stop transplanting, and plowing, and applying chemical fertilizers, and preparing compost, and spraying pesticides.