Definitions for Breed

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Breed breed

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IPA: /brid/

Breed is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in Breed (bdeer).

Definitions for Breed

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 (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 Breed

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 Breed

Perhaps, once in awhile, scarcity will breed rational thinking, too.

EIA found that some companies are issued licenses to breed endangered animals, including the South China Tiger.

The silkworm-rearers are now taught to breed from healthy moths only.

The swan is said to breed wild now no further away than the North of Sweden.

But an island any less menacing would fail to breed a villain who could hope to spar with James Bond.

They are, in short, "We the people," this breed called Americans.

Of this breed there are supposed to be about three millions in our Southern provinces.

He is probably the last of the breed of rural Democrats who are passing from the scene.

Daniel Claus had set up a pack of hounds, equal in breed to Sir William's.

A male and female who do most of the mating dominate packs, and younger subordinates only breed occasionally.