breed

breed is a 5-letter English word with 20 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 20 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
2. transitive verb. To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.
3. transitive verb. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up.
4. transitive verb. To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.
5. transitive verb. To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
6. transitive verb. To raise, as any kind of stock.
7. transitive verb. To produce or obtain by any natural process.
8. intransitive verb. To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.
9. intransitive verb. To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.
10. intransitive verb. To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
11. intransitive verb. To raise a breed; to get progeny.
12. noun. A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.
13. noun. Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities.
14. noun. A number produced at once; a brood.
15. noun. a special type

    "Google represents a new breed of entrepreneurs"

16. 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: stock, strain

17. verb. have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)

    "pandas rarely breed in captivity"

    "These bacteria reproduce"

    Synonyms: multiply

18. verb. cause to procreate (animals)

    "She breeds dogs"

19. verb. copulate with a female, used especially of horses

    "The horse covers the mare"

    Synonyms: cover

20. verb. call forth

    Synonyms: engender, spawn

Synonyms

stock, strain, multiply, cover, engender, spawn

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in breed:

brede, rebed

Common word forms

bree, breeds, breeder, breeding, breedable

Words from these letters

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