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

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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, 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

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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. Katta Ludynia:

   The dam in Kimberley is so important because it is manageable, so we can secure the water level there and that might be the only site the flamingoes can breed in Southern Africa, if the drought continues in other areas.

2. Germaine Greer:

   There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women want and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic.

3. Gabby Clezy:

   Chickens live for a long time, they live from eight to 10 years, sometimes even longer depending on the breed.

4. Mats Wilander:

   Truth is, and I hate to say it, we are going to lose the greatest player of all time in terms of interest in a year or two when Roger stops, we have a new breed of men and women that are really exciting, great athletes, great attitude but they are missing out on a bit of the limelight while the likes of Federer and Rafa Nadal and Novak continue to play.

5. Karan Anaja:

   Whether it’s in the arts or in business, Mumbai is where people come to explore their passions, where traditional Indian ‘culture’ meets a new breed of ideas and shows openness to change.