breed
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English breden, from Old English brēdan, from Proto-Germanic *brōdijaną (“to brood”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁- (“warm”). Cognate with Scots brede, breid, Saterland Frisian briede, West Frisian briede, Low German bröden, Dutch broeden, German brüten.
Inflected forms:
form: breeds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: breeding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bred
pos: verb
tags: past
form: breede
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
pos: verb
examples: Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better.
gloss: To give birth to; to be the native place of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A pond breeds fish.
A northern country breeds stout men.
Yet every mother breeds not sons alike.
gloss: To mate.
pos: verb
gloss: To keep (animals) and have (them) reproduce in a way that improves the next generation's qualities.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To arrange the mating of (specific animals).
pos: verb
tags: often
transitive
examples: She wanted to breed her cow to the neighbor's registered bull.
gloss: To propagate or grow (plants) in an effort to give (them) certain qualities.
pos: verb
examples: He tries to breed blue roses.
gloss: To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.
pos: verb
examples: born and bred
Ah wretched me! by fates averſe, decreed, / To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed!
born and bred on the verge of the wilderness
gloss: To yield or result in.
pos: verb
examples: disaster breeds famine
familiarity breeds contempt
lest the place / And my queint habits breed astonishment
gloss: To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated or to grow, like young before birth.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
gloss: To educate; to instruct; to bring up.
pos: verb
tags: sometimes
examples: No care was taken to breed him a Protestant.
His farm may not […] remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in.
gloss: To produce or obtain by any natural process.
pos: verb
examples: Children would breed their teeth with much less danger.
gloss: To have birth; to be produced, developed, or multiplied.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Fair encounter
Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace
On that which breed between 'em!
gloss: To ejaculate inside (a person or a bodily orifice of same); to creampie.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
vulgar
examples: 2018, Cassandra Dee, Paying My Boyfriend's Debt: A Billionaire Bad Boy Romance, Cassandra Dee Romance via PublishDrive
“God, I love your ass,” he says, his voice almost a growl. “I'm gonna breed this ass tonight.”
“ Yes,” I said. “You want to fuck me, and I submit to you. My body is yours. Stuff me. Fill me. Breed my ass. Seed me, my love.
Then...you get...bred.
“I can't...can't last, baby.” / “I don't care. Come inside me. Breed me.”
"Are you clean?" he asked. / "Yeah, I get tested recently." / "Perfect. Breed me.”
Related words: breed in the bone
Derived words: best of breed
breedable
breedbate
breeder
breed in and in
breeding
breed like rabbits
breed true
breed up
breedy
colorbreed
crossbreed
cross-breed
inbreed
interbreed
outbreed
overbreed
rebreed
self-breed
slave-breeding
upbreed
misbreed
unbreed
underbreed
xbreed
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