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Procreate

To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.

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Manner of action 9

Breed 76% connected

To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Brood 76% connected

The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Cover 76% connected

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Fructify 76% connected

To bear fruit.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hatch 76% connected

To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Incubate 76% connected

To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Multiply 76% connected

To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Propagate 76% connected

To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or she…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Set 76% connected

of Set

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Broader term 2

Create 76% connected

Created; composed; begotten.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 4

Procreative 74% connected

Having the power to beget; generative.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Procreative 74% connected

Having the power to beget; generative.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 2

Multiply 92% connected

To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Reproduce 92% connected

To produce again.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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