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breed
idiom
1. A scab Regional To stir up trouble for oneself.
2. Breed up a storm New England To become cloudy.
noun
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.
4. A group of usually domesticated animals or plants presumably related by descent from common ancestors and visibly similar in most characters.
5. A number of persons of the same stock.
verb
1. To produce (offspring) by hatching or gestation.
2. To propagate (plants or animals) sexually and usually under controlled conditions .
3. To inculcate by training .
4. To mate with .
5. To produce (a fissionable element) by bombarding a nonfissionable element with neutrons from a radioactive element.
verb-intransitive
1. To copulate; mate.
2. To originate and develop: Mischief breeds in bored minds.
3. To produce offspring.
verb-transitive
1. To be the place of origin of: Austria breeds great skiers.
2. To bring about; engender: "Admission of guilt tends to breed public sympathy” ( Jonathan Alter).
3. To cause to reproduce, especially by controlled mating and selection: breed cattle.
4. To develop new or improved strains in (organisms), chiefly through controlled mating and selection of offspring for desirable traits.
5. To inseminate or impregnate; mate with.
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breed | 8 |
Scrabble |
2 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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be | 4 |
de | 3 |
re | 2 |
er | 2 |
ed | 3 |
3 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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bed | 6 |
bee | 5 |
ree | 3 |
red | 4 |
reb | 5 |
deb | 6 |
dee | 4 |
ere | 3 |
4 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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reed | 5 |
rede | 5 |
dree | 5 |
dere | 5 |
deer | 5 |
bree | 6 |
bred | 7 |
beer | 6 |
5 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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breed | 8 |
brede | 8 |