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

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