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For the verb: "to breed"

Simple Past:	bred
Past Participle:	bred

breed
A	noun
	1	breed, strain
			a lineage or race of people
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚attribute ╚property ╚heredity; genetic endowment ╚inheritance; hereditary pattern ╚ancestry; lineage; derivation; filiation ╚breed, strain
	2	breed, strain, stock
			a special variety of domesticated animals within a species; "he experimented on a particular breed of white rats"; "he created a new strain of sheep"
		Category Tree: group; grouping ╚biological group ╚taxonomic group; taxonomic category; taxon ╚variety ╚breed, strain, stock ╚pedigree ╚bloodstock
	3	breed
			a special lineage; "a breed of Americans"
		Category Tree: group; grouping ╚social group ╚kin; kin group; kinship group; kindred; clan; tribe ╚genealogy; family tree ╚lineage; line; line of descent; descent; bloodline; blood line; blood; pedigree; ancestry; origin; parentage; stemma; stock ╚breed
	4	half-breed, breed
			half-caste offspring of parents of different races (especially of white and Indian parents)
		Category Tree: entity ╚object; physical object ╚living thing; animate thing ╚organism; being ╚person; individual; someone; somebody; mortal; human; soul ╚mixed-blood ╚half-caste ╚half-breed, breed ╚metis
B	verb
	1	breed, multiply
			have young (animals); "pandas rarely breed in captivity"
		Category Tree: make; create ╚reproduce; procreate; multiply ╚breed, multiply ╚pullulate
	2	breed
			of plants or animals; "She breeds dogs"
		Category Tree: produce; make; create ╚breed ╚crossbreed; cross; hybridize; hybridise; interbreed ╚mongrelize; mongrelise
	3	breed, cover
			copulate with a female, used especially of horses; "The horse covers the mare"
		Category Tree: connect; link; tie; link up ╚join; conjoin ╚copulate; mate; pair; couple ╚breed, cover
	4	engender, breed, spawn
			call forth
		Category Tree: make; create ╚cause; do; make ╚engender, breed, spawn

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