BREED

verb

Synonyms

engender; generate; beget; produce; hatch; originate; bring up; nourish; train; instruct.

Definitions

  1. 1. To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch. Yet every mother breeds not sons alike. Shak. If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog. Shak.
  2. 2. To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster. To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed. Dryden. Born and bred on the verge of the wilderness. Everett.
  3. 3. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up. But no care was taken to breed him a Protestant. Bp. Burnet. His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in. Locke.
  4. 4. To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease. Lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment. Milton.
  5. 5. To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
  6. 6. To raise, as any kind of stock.
  7. 7. To produce or obtain by any natural process. [Obs.] Children would breed their teeth with less danger. Locke.

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Added: October 09, 2025 Updated: October 09, 2025
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