breed

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breed (third-person singular simple present breeds, present participle breeding, simple past and past participle bred)

  1. To sexually produce offspring.
  2. Of animals, to mate.
  3. To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities.
  4. To arrange the mating of specific animals.
    She wanted to breed her cow to the neighbor's registered bull.
  5. To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities.
    He tries to breed blue roses.
  6. To make sure that one's young grow up to adulthood.
  7. To yield or result in.
    Disaster breeds famine.
    familiarity breeds contempt.
  8. (LGBT) To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.

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Terms derived from breed

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to sexually produce offspring
of animals, to mate
to keep animals and have them reproduce
trans-top
to propagate or grow plants
to make sure that one's young grow up to adulthood
to yield or result in
  • Korean: 낳다 (nahda, nat-)
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[edit] Noun

breed (plural breeds)

  1. All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.
    a breed of tulip
    a breed of animal
  2. A race or lineage.
  3. (informal) A group of people with shared characteristics.
    People who were taught classical Greek and Latin at school are a dying breed.

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all animals or plants of the same species or subspecies
race or lineage
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  • Spanish: casta m.

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[edit] Etymology

From Old Dutch *brēd, from Proto-Germanic *braidaz.

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breed (comparative breder, superlative breedst)

  1. broad

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Declension of breed
positive comparative superlative
attributive predicative/adverbial
predicative/adverbial breed breder  
neuter
singular		 indefinite breed breder
definite brede bredere breedste het breedst(e)
common singular brede bredere breedste de breedste
plural brede bredere breedste de breedste
partitive breeds breders  


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