Synonyms for bred
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1. List of paraphrases for "bred":

   reared, high

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1. Tom Blair:

   Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

2. Bill Hemmer:

   He was speaking for all those people, and he started a hunger drive for them. I mean, that's a pretty good way to start if you ask me, so when you're local, and you're born and bred, yeah, there's an immediate attachment.

3. William Congreve:

   Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

4. William Hazlitt:

   It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

5. Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943):

   Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming and ancestral stream.