Breed

Definition:

  • (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.
  • (n.) Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities.
  • (n.) A number produced at once; a brood.

Compare breed with other words:

breed vs. null

breed vs. treed

brede vs. breed

breed vs. freed

breed vs. brewed

breed vs. greed

breed vs. reed

breed vs. creed

bread vs. breed

breed vs. spawn

breed vs. family

breed vs. proliferate

breed vs. type

breed vs. propagate

bear vs. breed

breed vs. redfin

breed vs. coachdog

breed vs. vermination

breed vs. ostiole

breed vs. southdown

barbet vs. breed

breed vs. intercross

breed vs. mongrelize

breed vs. species

breed vs. ponder

bleed vs. breed

breed vs. create

breed vs. start

breed vs. grow

bred vs. breed

born vs. breed

breed vs. kind

breed vs. cad

breed vs. nurture

breed vs. engender

breed vs. render

breed vs. content

breed vs. color

breed vs. think

breed vs. feed

breed vs. foster

breed vs. jacobin

breed vs. snowshoe

breed vs. chartreux

breed vs. cotswold

breed vs. cymric

breed vs. pacer

breed vs. merino

breed vs. shorthorn

breed vs. pouter

breed vs. siberian

breed vs. terrier

breed vs. greyhound

breed vs. munchkin

breed vs. sultan

breed vs. thoroughbred

breed vs. brood

breed vs. raise

breed vs. sighthound

breed vs. dog

breed vs. spaniel

breed vs. longhorn

breed vs. crossbreed

breed vs. crossbred

breed vs. hawker

breed vs. ragamuffin

alfalfa vs. breed

anadromous vs. breed

bengal vs. breed

breed vs. jersey

breed vs. javanese

breed vs. himalayan

breed vs. verminate

breed vs. miscegenation

breed vs. poodle

breed vs. multiply

breed vs. collie

breed vs. hackney

breed vs. rear

breed vs. weed

breed vs. strain

breed vs. inbreed

breed vs. hybridization

breed vs. lop

breed vs. mixed

barb vs. breed

breed vs. dovecote

boxer vs. breed

arab vs. breed

breed vs. gentleman

breed vs. tumbler

breed vs. catadromous

breed vs. devon

breed vs. dachshund

bastard vs. breed

breed vs. manx

breed vs. lady

breed vs. hound

breed vs. somali

breed vs. burmese

breed vs. mate

breed vs. persian

breed vs. stud

breed vs. generation

breed vs. kin

breed vs. interbreed

breed vs. lineage

breed vs. characteristic

breed vs. breeding

breed vs. offspring

breed vs. breeder

breed vs. sexually

breed vs. breede

breed vs. race

breed vs. womb

breed vs. newfoundland

breed vs. mutt

breed vs. russian

breed vs. welsh

asian vs. breed

abyssinian vs. breed

blackguard vs. breed