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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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

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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1. Dochka Ivanova:

   This train is the only option for people in several villages. And we're talking about poor people whose only income comes from the milk obtained from one or two cows they breed, they must travel to sell the milk and buy some basic products to survive. They continue to live as they lived 100 years ago.

2. Christopher Skaife:

   We are very, very pleased to say here at the Tower of London that we have now got four magnificent chicks, the first time they have been born at the Tower of London for over 30 years, we decided that it would be a really good idea to see if we could actually breed ravens ourselves at the Tower of London to secure our future, after all legend tells us that should the ravens leave the Tower of London it will crumble into dust and a great harm befall the kingdom.

3. Brian Woods:

   That individual (Breed) is no longer an employee of the school district.

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. Ramana Pemmaraju:

   Irrespective of your belief system, there are certain forces that act upon us and make us do what we do, ironically human race is the only breed who is more susceptible to it and we keep denying it.