Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
- 2transitive verb
To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.
- 3transitive verb
To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up.
- 4transitive verb
To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.
- 5transitive verb
To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
- 6transitive verb
To raise, as any kind of stock.
- 7transitive verb
To produce or obtain by any natural process.
- 8intransitive verb
To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.
- 9intransitive verb
To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.
- 10intransitive verb
To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
- 11intransitive verb
To raise a breed; to get progeny.
- 12noun
A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.
- 13noun
Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities.
- 14noun
A number produced at once; a brood.
- 15noun
a special type
"Google represents a new breed of entrepreneurs"
- 16noun
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"
- 17verb
have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)
"pandas rarely breed in captivity"
"These bacteria reproduce"
Synonyms
- 18verb
cause to procreate (animals)
"She breeds dogs"
- 19verb
copulate with a female, used especially of horses
"The horse covers the mare"
Synonyms
- 20verb
call forth
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