Verb

To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.

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, title= Wild Plants to the Rescue , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.

To give birth to; to be the native place of.

a pond breeds''' fish; a northern country '''breeds stout men

* Shakespeare

Yet every mother breeds not sons alike.

Of animals, to mate.

To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities.

To arrange the mating of specific animals.

To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities.

To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.

* Dryden

to bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed

* Everett

born and bred on the verge of the wilderness

To yield or result in.

* Milton

Lest the place / And my quaint habits breed astonishment.

(obsolete) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, like young before birth.

To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; sometimes followed by up .

* Bishop Burnet

No care was taken to breed him a Protestant.

* John Locke

His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in.

To produce or obtain by any natural process.

* John Locke

Children would breed their teeth with less danger.

To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.

* Shakespeare

Heavens rain grace / On that which breeds between them.

Verb

(lb) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.

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To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.

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(lb) To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.

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(lb) To establish a basis for (something).

(lb) To form by combining materials or parts.

(lb) To develop in magnitude or extent.