breed
English
/bɹiːd/
verb
Definitions
- To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
- (transitive) To give birth to; to be the native place of.
- Of animals, to mate.
- To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities.
- To arrange the mating of specific animals.
- To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities.
- To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.
- To yield or result in.
- (obsolete) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, like young before birth.
- (sometimes as breed up) To educate; to instruct; to bring up
- To produce or obtain by any natural process.
- (intransitive) To have birth; to be produced, developed or multiplied.
- (transitive) to ejaculate inside someone's ass
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English breden (broaden, make broad) inherited from Old English brēdan inherited from Proto-Germanic *brōdijaną (brood, breed) derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁- (steam, vapour, mist, breath, warm).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰreh₁-
Gloss
steam, vapour, mist, breath, warm
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
息
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antibreeding English
- bate English
- breedable English
- breedbate English
- breeder English
- breedermobile English
- breedership English
- breedest English
- breedeth English
- breeding English
- breedism English
- breedist English
- breedy English
- cobreeding English
- color English
- colorbreed English
- cross-breed English
- crossbreed English
- crossbreeder English
- half-breed English
- horsebreeder English
- inbreed English
- interbreed English
- interbreeder English
- intrabreed English
- linebreeding English
- misbreed English
- mouthbreeder English
- multibreed English
- nonbreeder English
- nonbreeding English
- outbreed English
- outbreeder English
- outbreeding English
- overbreed English
- postbreeding English
- prebreeder English
- prebreeding English
- rebreed English
- stockbreeder English
- stockbreeding English
- subbreed English
- thorough English
- thoroughbreed English
- unbreed English
- unbreedable English
- unbreeding English
- underbreed English
- upbreed English
- ausbrüten German
- brüten German
- erbrüten German
- bebroeden Dutch, Flemish
- broeden Dutch, Flemish
- broedmachine Dutch, Flemish
- broedpaar Dutch, Flemish
- broedplaats Dutch, Flemish
- broedseizoen Dutch, Flemish
- broedsel Dutch, Flemish
- broedzorg Dutch, Flemish
- gebroed Dutch, Flemish
- uitbroeden Dutch, Flemish
- *bʰreh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *brōdijaną Proto-Germanic
- *brōduz Proto-Germanic
- brēdan Old English
- breden Middle English
- breedyng Middle English
- yondbreden Middle English
- bredi Esperanto
- broeden Middle Dutch
- bruoten Old High German
- bréien Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- *bruoden Old Dutch
- briede Western Frisian
- brēda Old Frisian
- bate
- color
- breedy
- unbreed
- inbreed
- rebreed
- upbreed
- breeder
- breedeth
- breeding
- misbreed
- breedest
- breedist
- breedism
- outbreed
- thorough
- subbreed
- breedable
- overbreed
- breedbate
- underbreed
- nonbreeder
- interbreed
- intrabreed
- half-breed
- multibreed
- colorbreed
- prebreeder
- unbreeding
- outbreeder
- cobreeding
- crossbreed
- cross-breed
- breedership
- outbreeding
- prebreeding
- nonbreeding
- unbreedable
- horsebreeder
- linebreeding
- stockbreeder
- interbreeder
- postbreeding
- antibreeding
- mouthbreeder
- crossbreeder
- stockbreeding
- thoroughbreed
- breedermobile