Synonyms for breed
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1. breed, strain, stock(noun)

   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. breed(verb)

   a special type

   "Google represents a new breed of entrepreneurs"

   Synonyms:
   stock, strain

3. engender, breed, spawn(verb)

   call forth

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

4. breed, cover(verb)

   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. breed(verb)

   cause to procreate (animals)

   "She breeds dogs"

   Synonyms:
   engender, cover, spawn, multiply

6. breed, multiply(verb)

   have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)

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

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

English Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

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. breed(v)

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

   Antonyms:
   destroy, eradicate, extinguish, extirpate, stifle

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. breed(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   nourish, nurture, foster, bring up

2. breed(v. a.)

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

3. breed(v. a.)

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

4. breed(v. a.)

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

5. breed(v. n.)

   Synonyms:
   bring forth young, produce offspring

6. breed(v. n.)

   Synonyms:
   be born, be produced

7. breed(n.)

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

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1. List of paraphrases:

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

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