Synonyms for breed
bridbreed

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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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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, 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

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. James Stewart:

   Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.

2. Sheldrick Wildlife Trust:

   The zonkey combines the sturdy body of its donkey sire and the striped legs of its zebra mother, which makes for a striking creature, while it should otherwise lead a normal life, zonkeys are mules, meaning that it will be unable to successfully breed once it reaches maturity.

3. Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia:

   We have thought that the puppies would be most splendid if we did breed our French Bull girl, for she is a wonderful example of her kind. If we do, I should be happy to send one of the puppies to you.

4. Julie Ojango:

   A cross-breed can eat feed with high dry matter, and farmers know they can get more out of a cross in terms of milk or meat with the right feeding.

5. Mackenzie Kelly:

   I understand the intention and spirit of the letter from the Chief of Police encouraging recently separated officers to return with a monetary incentive but the larger issue here is that officers who have been loyal to the city have not been offered a financial incentive for staying, uneven pay will breed a larger chasm related to morale issues brewing at the department. It’s important to maintain equity and fairness in pay across the board.