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. Dennis Hof:

   This is the new breed of politicians because of what Donald Trump has done. Donald Trump's opened that door. Before this, who would have ever elected somebody who said, on tape,' Grab'em by the pussy' ? Nobody ever would do that.

2. Aesop:

   Familiarity breed contempt.

3. William Shakespeare:

   This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,-- This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

4. Mustapha Debboun:

   A lot of pockets of water will be formed. As the water recedes from the floods there will be a lot of formation of pockets and pools of water where mosquitos will find to breed, more habitats will be available for them.

5. William Wordsworth:

   The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions.