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{
"term": "breed",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "breed",
"heSheIt": "breeds"
},
"pastSimple": "bred",
"pastParticiple": "bred",
"ingForm": "breeding"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to have sex and produce young",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Many animals breed only at certain times of the year."
}
],
"topics": ["Birds", "Animals"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["in captivity", "successfully", "commercially"],
"preposition": ["for"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to keep animals or plants in order to produce young ones for a particular purpose",
"sensetop": "breed something (for/as something)breed from something",
"labels": "(North American English)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The rabbits are bred for their long coats.",
"contextForm": "breed something (for/as something)"
},
{
"text": "Greyhounds were originally bred as hunting dogs."
},
{
"text": "the first panda to be bred in captivity"
},
{
"text": "She's a lovely cat. Will you breed from her?",
"contextForm": "breed from something"
},
{
"text": "dogs that are bred for their fighting ability"
},
{
"text": "fish that have been selectively bred for their appearance"
},
{
"text": "The otters were bred in captivity and then released into the wild."
}
],
"topics": ["Farming"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["in captivity", "successfully", "commercially"],
"preposition": ["for"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to be the cause of something",
"sensetop": "breed something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Nothing breeds success like success."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to educate somebody in a particular way as they are growing up",
"sensetop": "breed something into somebody",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Fear of failure was bred into him at an early age."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "born and having grown up in a particular place with a particular background and education",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He was born and bred in Boston."
},
{
"text": "I'm a Londoner, born and bred."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to have a lot of babies in a short space of time",
"labels": "(informal, often offensive)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "knowing somebody/something very well may cause you to lose respect for them/it",
"labels": "(saying)",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/briːd/",
"audio": "br/breed/breed__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/briːdz/",
"audio": "br/breed/breeds__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/bred/",
"audio": "br/breed/bred__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbriːdɪŋ/",
"audio": "br/breed/breeding__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/briːd/",
"audio": "br/breed/breed__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/briːdz/",
"audio": "br/breed/breeds__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/bred/",
"audio": "br/breed/bred__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈbriːdɪŋ/",
"audio": "br/breed/breeding__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English brēdan ‘produce (offspring), bear (a child)’, of Germanic origin; related to German brüten, also to brood."
}