BRED Synonyms: 180 Similar and Opposite Words

bred

verb

past tense of breed

as in propagated

to bring forth offspring rabbits will breed very frequently unless they're kept separated

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as in raised

to bring to maturity through care and education he was bred to a life in the military by his father, himself an army captain

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as in created

to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind) this habit of favoring one employee over the others will breed resentment

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as in slept

to engage in sexual intercourse cats breeding outside our window made a horrible racket last night

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as in planted

to set permanently in the consciousness or mind-set parents who breed in their children a deep respect for people of all classes

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Recent Examples of bred This has bred a culture of entitlement and an insatiable desire for the government to do more, while many demand to work less, if at all. — Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2026 Schubarth subsequently bred offspring of the Montana Mountain King to captive bighorn ewes on his farm west of Great Falls. — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 29 Oct. 2026 Meanwhile, the pumpkins stacked outside grocery stores for Halloween, the field pumpkins bred for jack-o’-lantern duty, are a different plant for a different job. — Lauren Schuster, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026 Where the Birds Go After the Wedding A pigeon bred and trained as a release bird typically returns to a specific home loft after being transported to an event. — Rachel Silva, Martha Stewart, 16 Oct. 2026 Such seeming futility has bred disillusionment among some of the student body. — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 14 Oct. 2026 The conservancy is currently working to release a group of ploughshare tortoises bred there after the species was close to extinction because of poaching. — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026 As a child of parents who bred him to be the next Green Lantern, John knows full well the conflict between conscience and instinct, a ceaseless war that threatens to explode to the surface. — Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026 However, Andersen believed the mantra bred a culture of denial. — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bred

Verb

View this post on Instagram Because of the news of her divorce, the post trickled through the celebrity gossip outlets, and that coverage in turn propagated the post through Google search.

— Mia Sato, The Verge, 15 Oct. 2026
Cultivation The plant grows naturally on riverbeds, grasslands, and human-disturbed areas; it can be propagated from both seeds and stem cuttings.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of propagated

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Cooks in the Farm-to-Fork capital can choose between organic turkeys, heritage breeds with more dark meat and complex flavors, and poultry raised using regenerative agricultural practices which protect soil health.

— Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 6 Nov. 2026
Whereas Paintstroke evokes a wet stripe of pigment, Chalk Line juxtaposes raised cross-hatchings against a neutral ground.

— Livia Caligor, Architectural Digest, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of raised

Verb

That flag created a lot of debate, and people studied a slow-mo video and a second view of the penalty.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 2 Nov. 2026
The company was created by Palmer Luckey, the founder of the military defense company Anduril Industries, and Ben Lamm, the co-founder of the genetic engineering company Colossal Biosciences.

— Devika Rao, TheWeek, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of created

Verb

What if people ate, slept, worked, read, and entertained among the art?

— Julian Rose, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026
In one small study, office workers with windows got far more daytime light than colleagues without them and slept the better part of an hour longer at night.

— Randy J. Nelson, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of slept

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Then came the record ocean heat of 2023, when even restoration efforts could not save most of the endangered elkhorn and staghorn corals planted in the Keys.

— Steven Vollmer, Sun Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2026
The Constitution planted the seeds, and some of those seeds didn’t bear fruit for some time.

— Sarah Gordon, Hartford Courant, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of planted

Verb

In a research post, OpenAI said the pipeline identified 2,308 candidate findings and dynamically reproduced 1,724 of them.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2026
Altonaga ruled that the dispute required a more developed factual record, particularly because the university’s earlier submissions selectively reproduced statements without providing their complete conversational context.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of reproduced

Verb

The students brought 16 wreaths and 16 red hearts -- one for each victim -- outside the station building.

— MARKO DROBNJAKOVIC, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026
Better Over Time should give him an opportunity to expunge his anguish and, if not necessarily heal, then find clarity on why his preternatural talent has brought a mixture of blessings and frustration.

— Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2026