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breed
noun as in kind, class
verb as in generate, bring into being
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The attempt to “breed back” the Auroch of Teutonic legend was of a piece with the Nazi obsession with racial purity and eugenics.
A male and female who do most of the mating dominate packs, and younger subordinates only breed occasionally.
They seem to be a slightly different breed from those in New York or London.
Perhaps, once in awhile, scarcity will breed rational thinking, too.
And I am truly preserving something unique because those garments are like a dying breed.
He was a new breed, that parson, a genuwine no-two-alike, come-one-in-a-box kind.
When Mac started Gregory back he told him that we would be along presently, then sat himself down on a rock and watched the breed.
But such a thing as happened this morning must breed doubts and suspicions in a woman who has had the experience I have had.
None breed, however, in Guernsey itself, or in any of the little rocky islands immediately surrounding it.
It stays on through the winter, but never remains to breed as it does regularly at Lundy Island.
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On this page you'll find 137 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to breed, such as: brand, strain, type, variety, character, and extraction.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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