Synonyms for Breed
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1. breed

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

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

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1. breedverb

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

   Antonyms:
   destroy, eradicate, extinguish, extirpate, stifle

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms: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, breed, 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, breed, 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, breed, 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, breed, engender, manifold

Matched Categories

1. • Animal Husbandry
   • Cause
   • Copulate
   • Produce

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. breedverb

   Synonyms:
   nourish, nurture, foster, bring up

2. breedverb

   Synonyms:
   discipline, educate, instruct, train, teach, school

3. breedverb

   Synonyms:
   beget, get, procreate, engender, generate, produce

4. breedverb

   Synonyms:
   originate, occasion, give rise to, be the cause of

5. breedverb

   Synonyms:
   bring forth young, produce offspring

6. breedverb

   Synonyms:
   be born, be produced

7. breednoun

   Synonyms:
   race (of animals), lineage, pedigree, progeny, stock

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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

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:3.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "breed":

   reproduce, race, nest, spawn, breeding, recur, mate, re-occur, reoccur, métis, reproducing, replicate, nesting, generation

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How to use Breed in a sentence?

1. Henry Louis Mencken:

   The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

2. Quida:

   Petty laws breed great crimes.

3. Gary Richardson:

   He was my best friend, i'm torn between wanting to be happy that this situation has brought awareness to his breed and their kind and loving nature, and the sorrow of having lost him.

4. The AKC:

   We’re thrilled to have two unique breeds join the registry, the Mudi, a medium-sized herding dog, makes a great pet for an active family committed to keeping this worker busy, and the small, loving Russian Toy thrives on being close to its humans, making a wonderful companion for an owner who can be with the dog a great deal. As always, we encourage people to do their research to find the right breed for their lifestyle.

5. Mark Krockenberger:

   Once they're chronically infected, they're often able to live reasonably happily, they just can't breed.