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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase quickly |
| Synonyms: | breed, burgeon, engender, escalate, expand, generate, grow rapidly, multiply, mushroom, procreate, propagate, reproduce, run riot, snowball |
| Antonyms: | decline, decrease, fall off |
| Main Entry: | rear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | raise young |
| Synonyms: | breed, bring up, care for, cultivate, educate, foster, grow, nurse, nurture, propagate, train |
| Notes: | one rears children and raises crops |
| Antonyms: | abandon, neglect |
| Main Entry: | reproduce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make something new; give birth |
| Synonyms: | bear, beget, breed, engender, father, fecundate, generate, hatch, impregnate, mother, multiply, procreate, produce young, progenerate, proliferate, propagate, repopulate, sire, spawn |
| Antonyms: | abort, kill |
| Main Entry: | work up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stimulate |
| Synonyms: | agitate, animate, arouse, breed, cause, develop, engender, excite, generate, get up, hatch, improve, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, move, muster up, occasion, produce, rouse, spur, stir up |
| Antonyms: | discourage, dissuade |
| Main Entry: | incubate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hatch |
| Synonyms: | breed, brood, nurture, produce |
| Main Entry: | make love |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | have sex |
| Synonyms: | be intimate, breed, copulate, fool around, fornicate, fuck, go all the way, go to bed with, have sexual intercourse, have sexual relations, lay, make out, mate, procreate, screw, sleep together |
| Main Entry: | pollinate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fertilize |
| Synonyms: | breed, cross-fertilize, crossbreed, pollenate |
| Main Entry: | pollinate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fertilize with pollen |
| Synonyms: | breed, fertilize |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | cause |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
aboriginal, agnogenic, ambiotic, cacestogenous, causal, connate, efficacious, embryonic, embryotic, germinal, original, originated, primary, primitive, primordial, princeps, radical, seminal, subjacent
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