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procreate - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | procreate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reproduce |
| Synonyms: | beget, breed, conceive, create, engender, father, generate, get, hatch, impregnate, make, mother, multiply, originate, parent, produce, proliferate, propagate, sire, spawn, give birth to, progenerate |
| Antonyms: | kill |
| Main Entry: | beget |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create, bear |
| Synonyms: | afford, breed, bring, bring about, cause, effect, engender, father, generate, get, multiply, occasion, procreate, produce, propagate, reproduce, sire, give rise to, progenerate, result in |
| Main Entry: | create |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | develop in mind or physically |
| Synonyms: | actualize, author, beget, bring to pass, build, coin, compose, conceive, concoct, constitute, construct, contrive, design, devise, discover, dream up, effect, erect, establish, fabricate, fashion, father, forge, form, formulate, found, generate, hatch, imagine, initiate, institute, invent, invest, make, occasion, organize, originate, parent, perform, plan, procreate, produce, rear, set up, shape, sire, spawn, start, bring into being, bring into existence, cause to be, give birth to, give life to |
| Antonyms: | destroy, ruin |
| Main Entry: | engender |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause to happen; cause an action |
| Synonyms: | arouse, beget, breed, bring about, create, develop, excite, foment, generate, hatch, incite, induce, instigate, make, muster, occasion, precipitate, procreate, produce, propagate, provoke, quicken, rouse, spawn, stimulate, stir, work up, bring forth, give birth to, give rise to, lead to |
| Antonyms: | destroy, finish, halt, kill, stop |
| Main Entry: | father |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sire |
| Synonyms: | beget, conceive, create, dream up, engender, establish, found, generate, invent, originate, procreate, produce, spawn, trigger, sow the seeds of |
| Antonyms: | mother |
| Main Entry: | fertilize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make ready to bear, produce |
| Synonyms: | beget, breed, compost, cover, dress, enrich, feed, fructify, generate, germinate, impregnate, inseminate, manure, mulch, pollinate, procreate, propagate, treat, fecundate, lime, make fruitful, make pregnant, top-dress |
| Main Entry: | generate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | produce, create |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, achieve, bear, beget, breed, bring about, bring to pass, cause, develop, effect, engender, form, found, get up, hatch, inaugurate, induce, initiate, institute, introduce, make, multiply, muster, occasion, originate, parent, perform, procreate, propagate, provoke, reproduce, set up, spawn, whip up*, work up, give birth to, give rise to |
| Antonyms: | break, destroy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hatch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create, plan |
| Synonyms: | bear, brainstorm*, breed, brood, cause, come up with, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up*, design, devise, dream up*, engender, formulate, generate, get up, incubate, induce, invent, make, make up, occasion, originate, parent, plot, prepare, procreate, produce, project, provoke, scheme, set, sire, spawn, whip up*, work up*, bring forth, give birth, lay eggs, spitball, think up*, throw together, trump up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impregnate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | infuse, fill; make pregnant |
| Synonyms: | charge, conceive, drench, fertilize, implant, inoculate, inseminate, leaven, overflow, percolate, permeate, pervade, procreate, produce, reproduce, saturate, seethe, soak, sodden, souse, steep, suffuse, fecundate, imbrue, transfuse |
| Antonyms: | deplete, take out |
| Main Entry: | mate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | marry and breed |
| Synonyms: | cohabit, copulate, couple, generate, join, land*, match, merge, pair, procreate, serve, tie, tie the knot*, wed, yoke, crossbreed |
| Antonyms: | abstain, uncouple |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | multiply |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase; reproduce |
| Synonyms: | accumulate, add, aggrandize, aggregate, augment, boost, breed, build up, compound, cube, double, enlarge, expand, extend, generate, heighten, magnify, manifold, mount, populate, procreate, produce, proliferate, propagate, raise, repeat, rise, spread, square |
| Antonyms: | decrease, divide, lessen, reduce |
| Main Entry: | proliferate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase quickly |
| Synonyms: | breed, burgeon, engender, escalate, expand, generate, multiply, mushroom*, procreate, propagate, reproduce, run riot*, grow rapidly, snowball |
| Antonyms: | decline, decrease, fall off |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | spawn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | produce |
| Synonyms: | create, father, generate, hatch, issue, make, mother, originate, parent, procreate, reproduce, sire, bring forth, give rise to |
| Antonyms: | destroy |
| Main Entry: | make love |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | have sex |
| Synonyms: | breed, copulate, fool around, fornicate, lay, make out, mate, procreate, screw, be intimate, fuck, go all the way, go to bed with, have sexual intercourse, have sexual relations, sleep together |
| Main Entry: | knock up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make pregnant |
| Synonyms: | impregnate, inseminate, procreate, spermatize |
| Main Entry: | breed |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | generate, bring into being |
| Synonyms: | bear, beget, bring about, cause, create, deliver, engender, hatch, impregnate, induce, make, multiply, originate, procreate, produce, propagate, reproduce, bring forth, give birth to, give rise to, progenerate |
| Antonyms: | not produce |
| Main Entry: | make |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create, build |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, adjust, arrange, assemble, beget, brew, bring about, cause, compose, conceive, constitute, construct, cook, cook up*, draw on, dream up, effect, engender, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, frame, generate, hatch, initiate, invent, knock off*, manufacture, mold, occasion, originate, parent, prepare, procreate, produce, put together, secure, shape, spawn, synthesize, whip, dash off, get ready, give rise to, lead to, tear off, throw together, whip out |
| Antonyms: | crush, destroy, raze, ruin |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | produce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | generate, create |
| Synonyms: | afford, assemble, author, bear, beget, blossom, breed, bring out, build, come through, compose, conceive, construct, contribute, cultivate, deliver, design, develop, devise, engender, erect, fabricate, fetch, flower, form, frame, furnish, give, imagine, invent, make, manufacture, multiply, offer, originate, parent, present, procreate, propagate, provide, put together, render, reproduce, return, supply, turn out, write, yield, bring forth, effectuate, give birth, give forth, show fruit |
| Antonyms: | consume, destroy, ruin |
| Main Entry: | propagate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | breed, reproduce |
| Synonyms: | bear, beget, engender, father, fertilize, generate, grow, impregnate, increase, inseminate, mother, multiply, originate, procreate, produce, proliferate, raise, sire, fecundate, make pregnant |
| Antonyms: | destroy, kill |
| Main Entry: | originate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create, introduce |
| Synonyms: | break the ice*, bring about, cause, coin, come up with, compose, conceive, develop, discover, evolve, form, formulate, found, generate, hatch, inaugurate, initiate, institute, invent, launch, make, parent, pioneer, procreate, produce, set up, spark, spawn, start, give birth to, innovate, open up, set in motion, think up, usher in |
| Antonyms: | effect, result |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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