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Synonyms for breed

  • verb
  • noun

Most common

evolve cream brood

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Engender

engender, procreate, beget, evolve, produce, mate, make love, get, cause, spawn, bear, propagate, originate, give rise to, copulate, bring forth, generate, occasion

2. Raise — to take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up

raise, bring up, rear

Other

hatch, brood, foster, train, nurture, incubate, discipline, cover, multiply, cream

Noun

1. Stock

stock, strain

Other

race, progeny, kind, family, half-breed, lineage, variety, sort, class, line, cream pie, extraction

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.

  2. v. 2

    To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.

  3. n. 1

    All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.

Related words

Word family
breedbate breeder breeding
Phrases
breed true designer breed dying breed

Forms

Plural
breeds → stocks, strains, races, progenies…
Past participle
bred
e.g. bred → engendered, procreated, begotten, evolved…

Example sentences

  • evolve I think we can evolve from our tribalist impulses.
  • cream It was so hot that she felt like eating ice cream.
  • brood A brood mare is a female horse used for breeding.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
breedsteady
evolverising
creamrising
broodfalling

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
get1
4 letters
kind1, line1, race1, sort1, bear1, mate1, rear1
5 letters
class1, cause1, cover2, train1, stock1, raise1, cream1, hatch1, spawn1, brood1, beget2
6 letters
family3, foster2, strain1, evolve2
7 letters
produce2, variety4, lineage3, nurture2, progeny3
8 letters
occasion3, generate3, multiply3, engender3, incubate3, copulate3
9 letters
originate4, propagate3, procreate3
10 letters
discipline3, extraction3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (cover2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

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