Definitions for Bred

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Bred bred

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IPA: /brɛd/

Bred is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in Bred (bder).

Definitions for Bred

noun

1. Genetics. a relatively homogenous group of animals within a species, developed and maintained by humans.
2. lineage; stock; strain:
3. sort; kind; group:
4. Disparaging and Offensive. half-breed (def 1).

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of breed.

verb (used with object)

1. to produce (offspring); procreate; engender.
2. to produce by mating; propagate sexually; reproduce:
3. Horticulture. to cause to reproduce by controlled pollination. to improve by controlled pollination and selection.
4. to raise (cattle, sheep, etc.):
5. to cause or be the source of; engender; give rise to:
6. to develop by training or education; bring up; rear:
7. Energy. to produce more fissile nuclear fuel than is consumed in a reactor.
8. to impregnate; mate:

verb (used without object)

1. to produce offspring:
2. to be engendered or produced; grow; develop:
3. to cause the birth of young, as in raising stock.
4. to be pregnant.

Origin of Bred

before 1000; Middle English breden, Old English brēdan to nourish (cognate with Old High German bruotan, German brüten); noun use from 16th century

Examples for Bred

"So I've a right to do, being born and bred to the bar," says Sir Condy.

Darci Brown, owner of a car dealership in Greenfield, Mass., has bred dogs as a hobby for 30 years.

There was a neighbour of mine, a farmer, who had two sons whom he bred up to the business.

Secondly, what's with choosing Swift, a 24-year-old born in Pennsylvania and bred in Nashville, to represent NYC?

All the wicked fellows whom I remember at the university were bred at them.

These exotic animals are kept in small cages and bred over and over again.

The modern world has strayed somewhat from fostering the same sense of adventure that bred his youthful imagination.

It is the result of apprehension and misapprehension, and bred of race-fear.

Even when bred in captivity, Leahy said breeding facilities are often horrendous, resembling factory farming.

Mr. Malbone would hardly imagine you had been bred in a Christian land.