Inbreed

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To breed by the continued mating of closely related individuals, especially to preserve desirable traits in a stock.
  • v. To breed or develop within; engender.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To breed or reproduce with those that are related.
  • v. To breed with those that share common traits or qualities.
  • v. To produce or generate within.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To produce or generate within.
  • v. To breed in and in. See under Breed, v. i.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To breed, generate, or develop within.
  • To breed from animals of the same parentage or otherwise closely related; breed in-and-in.
  • Word Usage
    "And I've also commented that we tend to "inbreed" as in our department at UVa, since we get thrown together in the offices and work late hours and then all go out together ... things happen."
    Verb Form
    inbred    inbreeding    inbreeds   
    Variant
    breed