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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kind, class |
| Synonyms: | brand, character, extraction, family, feather, genus, ilk, likes, line, lineage, lot, nature, number, pedigree, progeny, race, sort, species, stamp, stock, strain, stripe, type, variety |
| Main Entry: | breed |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | raise, nurture |
| Synonyms: | bring up, cultivate, develop, discipline, educate, foster, instruct, nourish, rear |
| Main Entry: | ancestry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | family predecessors; family history |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, antecedent, antecessor, blood, breed, breeding, derivation, descent, extraction, forebear, forefather, foregoer, foremother, forerunner, genealogy, heritage, house, kindred, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, precursor, primogenitor, progenitor, race, source, stock |
| 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: | beget |
| 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: | brew |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plan, devise |
| Synonyms: | breed, compound, concoct, contrive, develop, excite, foment, form, gather, hatch, impend, loom, mull, plot, project, scheme, start, stir up, weave |
| Main Entry: | bring up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | raise youngster |
| Synonyms: | breed, cultivate, develop, discipline, educate, feed, form, foster, nourish, nurture, provide for, rear, school, support, teach, train |
| Main Entry: | brood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cluster of children |
| Synonyms: | begats, breed, chicks, clutch, descendants, family, flock, hatch, infants, issue, litter, offspring, posterity, progeniture, progeny, scions, seed, young |
| Antonyms: | child |
| Main Entry: | cause |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bring into being; bring about |
| Synonyms: | be at the bottom of, begin, brainstorm*, break in, break the ice, breed, bring to pass, come out with, compel, cook up, create, dream up, effect, elicit, engender, evoke, fire up, generate, get things rolling, give rise to, hatch, incite, induce, introduce, kickoff, kindle, lead to, let, make, make up, motivate, muster, occasion, open, originate, precipitate, produce, provoke, result in, revert, secure, sow the seeds, start the ball rolling, think up, work up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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