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- [breed]
- /brid/
- /briːd/
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- [breed]
- /brid/
Definitions of breed word
- countable noun breed A breed of a pet animal or farm animal is a particular type of it. For example, terriers are a breed of dog. 3
- verb breed If you breed animals or plants, you keep them for the purpose of producing more animals or plants with particular qualities, in a controlled way. 3
- verb breed When animals breed, they have babies. 3
- verb breed If you say that something breeds bad feeling or bad behaviour, you mean that it causes bad feeling or bad behaviour to develop. 3
- countable noun breed You can refer to someone or something as one of a particular breed of person or thing when you want to talk about what they are like. 3
- verb breed to bear (offspring) 3
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Origin of breed
First appearance:
before 1000 One of the 6% oldest English words
before 1000; Middle English breden, Old English brēdan to nourish (cognate with Old High German bruotan, German brüten); noun use from 16th century
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Breed
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
breed popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 99% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
breed usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for breed
noun breed
- strain — to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
- brand — If someone is branded as something bad, people think they are that thing.
- type — a number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics, that causes them to be regarded as a group, more or less precisely defined or designated; class; category: a criminal of the most vicious type.
- variety — the state of being varied or diversified: to give variety to a diet.
- sort — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
verb breed
- create — To create something means to cause it to happen or exist.
- reproduce — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- produce — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- propagate — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- induce — to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
Antonyms for breed
verb breed
- destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
- ruin — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- refuse — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
- halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
- kill — to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
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