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bred

/bɹɛd/verb1 syllable

Bred means: copulate with a female, used especially of horses.

Synonyms for bred8

verb, as in copulate with a female, used especially of horses

breed, cover, brood, hatch, incubate

verb, as in call forth

engender, breed, spawn

verb, as in have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)

breed, multiply

verb, as in cause to procreate (animals)

breed

What does bred mean?4

verb

1

copulate with a female, used especially of horses“The horse covers the mare”

2

call forth

3

have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)“pandas rarely breed in captivity”

4

cause to procreate (animals)“She breeds dogs”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with bred?33

three syllables

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All 33 rhymes for bred, grouped by syllable

Bred in a sentence

  • He is rich, and what is more, he is well-bred.AlanF_US
  • I know he's stubborn and ill-bred, and what's more, he's crazy.AlanF_US
  • Sheep are bred for their fleece and their meat.qdii
  • What is bred in the bone will come out in the blood.U2FS
  • A well-bred horse doesn't care about a barking dog.unknown
  • Here a new breed of cow was bred.AlanF_US
  • Macromastia and gigantomastia must be bred back into the human gene pool.Eccles17
  • Blue-tongued skinks are also bred in captivity and sold as house pets.CM

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