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Procreate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To beget and conceive (offspring).

v. To produce or create; originate.

verb-intransitive. To beget and conceive offspring; reproduce.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To beget or conceive (offspring).

v. To originate, create or produce something.

v. To reproduce.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To beget; generate; engender; produce: as, to procreate children.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant

Word Usage

"For those who after the flesh beget children in the flesh, must necessarily seek fleshly and earthly heirs to their fleshly and earthly inheritance; but those who by the spiritual seed of the Word procreate spiritual sons to God, must of like necessity be spiritual in every thing which they do."

Verb Form

procreated procreates procreating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

create make

Hyponym

breed cover propagate set incubate multiply brood hatch fructify

Form

procreated procreating

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

beget engender generate create

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

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