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bred 音标拼音: [br'ɛd] vbl. breed的过去式和过去分词 breed的过去式和过去分词 Bred \ Bred\, imp. & p. p. of { Breed}. [ 1913 Webster] { Bred out}, degenerated. " The strain of man' s bred out into baboon and monkey." -- Shak. { Bred to arms}. See under { Arms}. { Well bred}. ( a) Of a good family; having a good pedigree. " A gentleman well bred and of good name." -- Shak. [ Obs., except as applied to domestic animals.] ( b) Well brought up, as shown in having good manners; cultivated; refined; polite. [ 1913 Webster] Brede
Breed \ Breed\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Bred}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Breeding}.] [ OE. breden, AS. br[= e] dan to nourish, cherish, keep warm, from br[= o] d brood; akin to D. broeden to brood, OHG. bruoten, G. br[" u] ten. See { Brood}.] 1. To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch. [ 1913 Webster] Yet every mother breeds not sons alike. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster. [ 1913 Webster] To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] Born and bred on the verge of the wilderness. -- Everett. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up. [ 1913 Webster] But no care was taken to breed him a Protestant. -- Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster] His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in. -- Locke. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease. [ 1913 Webster] Lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men. [ 1913 Webster] 6. To raise, as any kind of stock. [ 1913 Webster] 7. To produce or obtain by any natural process. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Children would breed their teeth with less danger. -- Locke. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: To engender; generate; beget; produce; hatch; originate; bring up; nourish; train; instruct. [ 1913 Webster]
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