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 Unlike cows, Garner said, yaks have not had all their wildness bred out of them. — David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2026 How a horse learned to play music Yupia is a 7-year-old American Bashkir bred in Kentucky. — Maddie Rhodes, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2026 Even the same people who bred Flaco for captivity stumble through answers about why keeping wild animals in confinement is, somehow, the right choice for them. — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 30 July 2026 For the fourth year in a row, Indian grey hornbills have bred successfully in Gujarat’s Gir landscape, according to The Better India. — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 28 July 2026 Scarce cultural assets are born organically, not bred artificially, and these assets are where pricing power lives. — George Wells, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026 The animal, fizzing with the inexhaustible energy of a creature bred for hauling chockablock toboggans, was confined to a tiny pen, a mere twenty feet square, behind the neighbor’s trailer. — Literary Hub, 10 July 2026 There are both yellow and red tomato varieties bred for heat tolerance, with smaller cherry and plum varieties generally handling high temperatures better than larger varieties. — The Spruce, 28 June 2026 The rash was much milder in mice bred with defective itch-sensing nerve cells. — ABC News, 27 June 2026

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Verb

The cuttings can be propagated in water until roots form to grow new plants.

— Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 3 Aug. 2026
However, when discussions are not grounded in evidence, misinformation can be propagated and can do real harm to the general public.

— Omer Awan, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of propagated

Verb

Extended deployments of carriers – which can have more than 5,000 sailors and Marines on board – have raised concerns about the impact not only on the ships but on service members.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
Mangione’s lawyers raised concerns when he was first charged in both jurisdictions that the 28-year-old was unfairly being tried twice for the same crime.

— Kara Scannell, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of raised

Verb

Amaya joined DePaul in October 2022 and, according to her lawsuit, created and oversaw the athletic department’s mental health education programming.

— Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Some of the loudest opposing voices are creatives, who see the products being created by AI companies as something threatening to their own practice and to the world at-large.

— T.M. Brown, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of created

Verb

Wilson’s draft night peers await The Bulls rookie planted his flag some time ago.

— Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
The Last Bison surrounded him with a thicket of acoustic instrumentation, including guitar, banjo, bass, and mandolin, while Fallon, cowboy hat planted firmly on his head, joined the fray with a washboard.

— Sophie Miller, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of planted

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Numerical simulations reproduced the experimental results and indicated that nonreciprocal pair propulsion is the minimal mechanism needed to sustain the unusual cluster dynamics.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2026
Your god-classes and workarounds become its conventions, reproduced fluently in every new file.

— Evan J. Schwartz, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of reproduced

Verb

In the finale, Rhaenyra shed nearly every ounce of goodwill fostered during the season by facilitating the murder of the High Septon and very publicly announced her place as the Prince Who Was Promised.

— Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026
Tan France is reacting to his former Queer Eye costar Karamo Brown’s claims that the Emmy-winning Netflix series fostered a toxic work environment.

— Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of fostered

Verb

Firefighters brought the blaze under control and the injured were taken to a hospital where some were being treated for burn injuries while others suffered from smoke inhalation and asphyxiation, the report said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
The case was brought by Strawberry Growers for Fair Trade, a coalition of Florida strawberry producers, whose berries are typically harvested during the winter months.

— Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026