Antonyms for breed
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1. breed

   Antonyms:
   annihilate, banish, destroy, eradicate, expel, exterminate, extirpate, overthrow, remove, root out, uproot, wipe out

   Synonyms:
   augment, beget, build up, cherish, colonize, develop, foster, increase, plant, populate, propagate, replenish, settle

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1. breedverb

   Antonyms:
   destroy, eradicate, extinguish, extirpate, stifle

   Synonyms:
   generate, procreate, engender, propagate, produce, beget, hatch, nourish, train, instruct, evolve, cause

Matched Categories

1. • Animal Husbandry
   • Cause
   • Copulate
   • Produce

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. breed, strain, stocknoun

   a special variety of domesticated animals within a species

   "he experimented on a particular breed of white rats"; "he created a new strain of sheep"

   Synonyms:
   neckcloth, parentage, pedigree, gillyflower, striving, melodic line, caudex, straining, fund, inventory, melodic phrase, mental strain, tenor, form, descent, stemma, nervous strain, pains, stock certificate, stock, melody, variant, lineage, livestock, broth, origin, tune, line, line of descent, store, song, gunstock, air, bloodline, strain, stress, ancestry, var., nisus, farm animal, blood, blood line

2. breedverb

   a special type

   "Google represents a new breed of entrepreneurs"

   Synonyms:
   stock, strain

3. engender, breed, spawnverb

   call forth

   Synonyms:
   cover, get, mother, father, spawn, multiply, sire, bring forth, beget, engender, generate

4. breed, coververb

   copulate with a female, used especially of horses

   "The horse covers the mare"

   Synonyms:
   multiply, cut through, get over, embrace, plow, wrap up, enshroud, compensate, encompass, shroud, continue, treat, hatch, incubate, report, track, extend, cut across, brood, deal, spawn, underwrite, overcompensate, address, spread over, hide, traverse, pass over, comprehend, handle, overlay, cover, cross, get across, engender, cover up, insure

5. breedverb

   cause to procreate (animals)

   "She breeds dogs"

   Synonyms:
   engender, cover, spawn, multiply

6. breed, multiplyverb

   have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)

   "pandas rarely breed in captivity"; "These bacteria reproduce"

   Synonyms:
   cover, spawn, reproduce, procreate, multiply, engender, manifold

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1. breednoun

   Synonyms:
   race, variety, strain, extraction, family, lineage, pedigree, class, sort, kind, variety

2. breedverb

   Synonyms:
   beget, generate, procreate, engender, conceive and bear, nurture, train, occasion, originate, engender

How to use breed in a sentence?

1. William Shakespeare:

   How use doth breed a habit in a man.

2. Josh Billings:

   Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

3. Piero Ignazi:

   A new breed of 5-Star leaders has popped up from nowhere, and for now, Renzi doesn't seem to have an answer to them.

4. Mayor Bowser:

   This multiplicity of forces can breed dangerous confusion, such as when helicopters are used in a war-like tactic to frighten and disperse peaceful protesters.

5. J. William Galbraith:

   Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability.

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