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Definition of Breed
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Breed
To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch. To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up. To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease. To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men. To raise, as any kind of stock. To produce or obtain by any natural process. To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant. To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth. To have birth; to be produced or multiplied. To raise a breed; to get progeny. A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance. Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities. A number produced at once; a brood. Related Definitions:
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Breed Quotations
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. Francis Bacon The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany. George Santayana To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it. William Hazlitt Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. William Hazlitt |
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Breed Translations
breed in Afrikaans is ras, teel, oplei, aanhou breed in Danish is avle, opdrage, race breed in Dutch is opkweken, fokken, opfokken, telen breed in Finnish is kasvattaa, rotu breed in Italian is procreare, razza breed in Spanish is casta, raza |
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