OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 1187

plant

/plænt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
plantar • sembrar • sementar
To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
colocar • infiltrar
To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
Not only that, I thought, but cynics would now theorise that the interview piece was a PR exercise, a planted story designed as damage-limitation in the event that some probing jou…
That gun’s not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!
colocar • plantar
To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
Plant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug.
to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a flag; to plant one’s feet on solid ground