v., bred (brĕd), breed·ing, breeds.

v.tr.

1. To produce (offspring); give birth to or hatch.
2. To bring about; engender: “Admission of guilt tends to breed public sympathy” (Jonathan Alter).
3. 1. To cause to reproduce, especially by controlled mating and selection: breed cattle.
   2. To develop new or improved strains in (organisms), chiefly through controlled mating and selection of offspring for desirable traits.
   3. To inseminate or impregnate; mate with.
4. To rear or train; bring up: a writer who was bred in a seafaring culture.
5. To be the place of origin of: Austria breeds great skiers.
6. To produce (fissionable material) in a breeder reactor.

v.intr.

1. To produce offspring.
2. To copulate; mate.
3. To originate and develop: Mischief breeds in bored minds.

n.

1. A group of organisms having common ancestors and certain distinguishable characteristics, especially a group within a species developed by artificial selection and maintained by controlled propagation.
2. A kind; a sort: a new breed of politician; a new breed of computer.
3. Offensive. A person of mixed racial descent; a half-breed.

idioms:

breed a scab (or scabs) on (one's) nose Regional.

1. To stir up trouble for oneself.

breed up a storm New England.

1. To become cloudy.

[Middle English breden, from Old English brēdan.]

verb

1. To produce sexually or asexually others of one's kind: increase, multiply, procreate, proliferate, propagate, reproduce, spawn. See reproduction/barrenness.
2. To be the biological father of: beget, father, get, procreate, sire. See kin.
3. To cause to come into existence: beget, create, engender, father, hatch, make, originate, parent, procreate, produce, sire, spawn. Idioms: givebirthriseto. See make/unmake.
4. To bring into existence and foster the development of: cultivate, grow, propagate, raise. See care for/neglect, reproduction/barrenness.

noun

A class that is defined by the common attribute or attributes possessed by all its members: cast, description, feather, ilk, kind, lot, manner, mold, nature, order, sort, species, stamp, stripe, type, variety. Informal persuasion. See group.

v

Definition: generate, bring into being
Antonyms: not produce

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A group of related animals which are genotypically and phenotypically sufficiently similar to produce physically similar offspring when they are mated with each other. In most countries each breed is managed by a breed society which maintains a register of the animals that are members of the breed, and which animals shall be admitted to the register. The breed society also sets the standards for physical appearance that must be attained. See specific breed name for further descriptions and under species for list of breeds.

• b. class averages — the average production performance for all animals in the breed, arranged in groups according to age and sex.
• commercial b. — the breed is at the level where commercial herds are breeding them for the sale market as egg-layers or wool producers rather than as foundation stock to produce the sale article.
• b. comparisons — comparisons of productivity between populations each of which consists entirely of members of one breed.
• b. complementation — the practice of combining breeds in a breeding program so as to maximize the genetic merit of offspring for total productivity; implies use of breeds which tend to cancel out the undesirable elements in their genetic makeup.
• b. multiplier — second echelon in the breeding industry; the stud breeder producing usually sires and, to a lesser extent, dams of superior merit for commercial flocks or herds.
• b. nucleus — a stud producing its own male and female herd replacements, without the introduction of outside blood; supplies the multiplier.
• b. preservation — when superior breeds appear the superseded breeds are often in danger of extinction; preservation of genes which may be desirable at a later time dictates that the superseded breed be maintained in its pure state.
• b. structure — see traditional breed pyramid.
• traditional b. pyramid — the supply structure of three echelons, each larger than the one before, within each breed; shape like a pyramid with the breed nucleus at the top, supplying to the second echelon, the multiplier, in turn supplying sires to commercial herds.
• b. true — to produce offspring that are very similar to the parent(s); refers to homozygotes.

IN BRIEF: A special type of plant or animal that has been produced by human efforts. To give birth; to produce young.

I'm planning to breed my pair of Maltese dogs together so we'll have lots of cute puppies from them.

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Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - opdrage, uddanne
v. intr. - formere sig, yngle
n. - race, art, slægt

idioms:

• well bred    gode manerer, god opførsel

Nederlands (Dutch)
fokken, kweken, verwekken, baren, opvoeden, ras, soort

Français (French)
v. tr. - élever, faire l'élevage de, élever (des enfants) (arch), (fig) faire naître, donner naissance, engendrer
v. intr. - se reproduire, se multiplier
n. - (Zool) race, espèce, type, (Bot) espèce, (fig) sorte

idioms:

• well bred    bien élevé

Deutsch (German)
v. - züchten, hervorrufen
n. - Rasse, Art

idioms:

• well bred    aus guter Zucht, wohlerzogen, gesittet

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - γεννώ, πολλαπλασιάζομαι, παράγω, αναπαράγω/-ομαι, ανατρέφω, μεγαλώνω, εκτρέφω, προκαλώ, προξενώ
n. - γενιά, ράτσα, γένος, φύτρα

idioms:

• well bred    καλοαναθρεμμένος

Italiano (Italian)
allevare, coltivare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - procriar, criar (animais ou plantas), desenvolver
n. - raça (f)

idioms:

• well bred    bem criado

Русский (Russian)
порождать, разводить, порода

idioms:

• well bred    воспитанный, характерный для воспитанного человека, породистый

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - criar, cultivar, engendrar
v. intr. - producirse, originarse, crear un cultivo
n. - casta, linaje

idioms:

• well bred    bien educado, animal de raza

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - föda upp, odla, alstra, skapa
n. - ras, avel, sort

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
产, 孵, 养育, 使繁殖, 饲养, 培育, 生产, 繁殖, 育种, 孕育, 滋生, 产生, 品种, 种类, 类型

idioms:

• well bred    有教养的, 受过良好教育的, 良种的

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 產, 孵, 養育, 使繁殖, 飼養, 培育
v. intr. - 生產, 繁殖, 育種, 孕育, 滋生, 產生
n. - 品種, 種類, 類型

idioms:

• well bred    有教養的, 受過良好教育的, 良種的

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - ~를 낳다, 기르다, 가르치다
v. intr. - 새끼를 낳다, 자라다
n. - 종류, 혈통

idioms:

• well bred    잘 자란

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 子を産む, 繁殖する, 育てる, 繁殖させる, 養育する, 生じる, 生じさせる, 産む, 生み出す
n. - 品種, 種類

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) ربى, ولد (الاسم) سلاله, فصيله, نسل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮גידל חיות, יצר, טיפח, חינך, גרם‬
v. intr. - ‮התרבה, פרה ורבה, היתה בהיריון‬
n. - ‮גזע, מין, זן‬

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