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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | procreation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reproduction |
| Synonyms: | begetting, breeding, conception, engenderment, generation, impregnation, propagation |
| Main Entry: | bear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give birth |
| Synonyms: | be delivered of, beget, breed, bring forth, create, develop, engender, form, fructify, generate, invent, make, parturitate, produce, propagate, provide, reproduce, yield |
| Notes: | bare is to uncover or reveal or to expose; bear is to hold up, support, transport - or an animal |
| Antonyms: | be unproductive |
| Main Entry: | breed |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | generate, bring into being |
| Synonyms: | bear, beget, bring about, bring forth, cause, create, deliver, engender, give birth to, give rise to, hatch, impregnate, induce, make, multiply, originate, procreate, produce, progenerate, propagate, reproduce |
| Antonyms: | not produce |
| Main Entry: | bring about |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause success |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, achieve, beget, bring to pass, compass, create, do, draw on, effect, effectuate, engender, generate, give rise to, make happen, manage, occasion, produce, realize, secure, succeed |
| Antonyms: | halt, kill, stop |
| 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: | engender |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause to happen; cause an action |
| Synonyms: | arouse, beget, breed, bring about, bring forth, create, develop, excite, foment, generate, give birth to, give rise to, hatch, incite, induce, instigate, lead to, make, muster, occasion, precipitate, procreate, produce, propagate, provoke, quicken, rouse, spawn, stimulate, stir, work up |
| 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, sow the seeds of, spawn, trigger |
| Antonyms: | mother |
| Main Entry: | fertilize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make ready to bear, produce |
| Synonyms: | beget, breed, compost, cover, dress, enrich, fecundate, feed, fructify, generate, germinate, impregnate, inseminate, lime, make fruitful, make pregnant, manure, mulch, pollinate, procreate, propagate, top-dress, treat |
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