breed

breed has 20 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• v. t.. To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
• v. t.. To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.
• v. t.. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up.
• v. t.. To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.
• v. t.. To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
• v. t.. To raise, as any kind of stock.
• v. t.. To produce or obtain by any natural process.
• v. i.. To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.
• v. i.. To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.
• v. i.. To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
• v. i.. To raise a breed; to get progeny.
• n.. A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.