Untreed vs Unbreed - What's the difference?
untreed | unbreed |
The mutt, considered as a breed in its own right.
* 2005 , Julia Szabo, The Underdog: A Celebration of Mutts , Workman Publishing (2005), ISBN 9780761133483:
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To undo breeding or its effects.
* 1967 , Child Development: Readings in Experimental Analysis (eds. & Donald M. Baer), Appleton-Century-Crofts (1967), page 111:
* 2005 , Tara Brautigam, "Pit bull ban? Owners and officials facing off", The Spectator , 24 January 2005:
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To cause to become extinct through insufficient fertility.
* 2004 , , Fewer: How the New Demography of Depopulation Will Shape Our Future , Ivan R. Dee (2004), ISBN 9781566636063, page 16:
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(figurative) To unmake or destroy.
* 1991 , Kenneth Craig, The Arab Christian: A History in the Middle East , Westminster/John Knox Press (1991), ISBN 9780664219451,
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As an adjective untreed
is not treed; without trees.As a noun unbreed is
the mutt, considered as a breed in its own right.As a verb unbreed is
to undo breeding or its effects.unbreed
English
Noun
(en noun)- They are a generic, a noname animal, the unbreed , one of a kind, and in these days of mass-produced merchandise, of branding run rampant, the mutt's uniqueness is a priceless commodity.
Verb
- We cannot unbreed the child and reconstitute his genes in a happier combination.
- "That's what they were bred for and you just can't unbreed that kind of stuff in an animal overnight," Ellis said.
- (No, I don't think the human species will unbreed itself out of existence.)
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- In the 1970s it was different, and there was no feasible Shih?b to hold the ring and unbreed suspicion.