| Main Entry: | father |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sire |
Synonyms: |
beget, conceive, create, dream up, engender, establish, found, generate, invent, originate, procreate, produce, sow the seeds of, spawn, trigger |
Antonyms: |
mother |
| Main Entry: | beget |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create, bear |
Synonyms: |
afford, breed, bring, bring about, cause, effect, engender, father, generate, get, give rise to, multiply, occasion, procreate, produce, progenerate, propagate, reproduce, result in, sire |
| Main Entry: | create |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | develop in mind or physically |
Synonyms: |
actualize, author, beget, bring into being, bring into existence, bring to pass, build, cause to be, coin, compose, conceive, concoct, constitute, construct, contrive, design, devise, discover, dream up, effect, erect, establish, fabricate, fashion, father, forge, form, formulate, found, generate, give birth to, give life to, hatch, imagine, initiate, institute, invent, invest, make, occasion, organize, originate, parent, perform, plan, procreate, produce, rear, set up, shape, sire, spawn, start |
Antonyms: |
destroy, ruin |
| Main Entry: | nurse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | care for, tend |
Synonyms: |
advance, aid, attend, baby-sit, cherish, cradle, cultivate, encourage, father, feed, forward, foster, further, harbor, humor, immunize, indulge, inoculate, irradiate, keep alive, keep an eye on, keep tabs on, look after, medicate, minister to, mother, nourish, nurture, pamper, preserve, promote, see to, serve, sit, succor, support, take care of, take charge of, treat, vaccinate, wait on, watch out for, watch over |
Antonyms: |
ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | procreate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reproduce |
Synonyms: |
beget, breed, conceive, create, engender, father, generate, get, give birth to, hatch, impregnate, make, mother, multiply, originate, parent, produce, progenerate, proliferate, propagate, sire, spawn |
Antonyms: |
kill |
| Main Entry: | propagate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | breed, reproduce |
Synonyms: |
bear, beget, engender, father, fecundate, fertilize, generate, grow, impregnate, increase, inseminate, make pregnant, mother, multiply, originate, procreate, produce, proliferate, raise, sire |
Antonyms: |
destroy, kill |
| Main Entry: | reproduce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make something new; give birth |
Synonyms: |
bear, beget, breed, engender, father, fecundate, generate, hatch, impregnate, mother, multiply, procreate, produce young, progenerate, proliferate, propagate, repopulate, sire, spawn |
Antonyms: |
abort, kill |
| Main Entry: | spawn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | produce |
Synonyms: |
bring forth, create, father, generate, give rise to, hatch, issue, make, mother, originate, parent, procreate, reproduce, sire |
Antonyms: |
destroy |