Definition of bred

"bred" in the verb sense

1. engender, breed, spawn

call forth

2. breed, cover

copulate with a female, used especially of horses

"The horse covers the mare"

3. breed

cause to procreate (animals

"She breeds dogs"

4. breed, multiply

have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms

"pandas rarely breed in captivity"

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Quotations for bred

Dogs bark as they are bred. [ Proverb ]

The best bred have the best portion. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Drought never bred dearth in England. [ Proverb ]

You were bred in brazen-nose college. [ Proverb ]

Like the dreams,
Children of night, of indigestion bred. [ Churchill ]

Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy. [ William Shakespeare ]

Judgment hath bred a kind of remorse in me. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is an ill-bred dog that will beat a bitch. [ Proverb ]

To appear well-bred, a man must actually be so. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt. [ Cervantes ]

A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant. [ Montaigne ]

That which is bred in the bone will never come out in the flesh. [ Proverb ]

To plough and sow, to reap and mow, my father bred me early,
For one, he said, to labour bred, was a match for fortune fairly. [ Burns ]

Take heed of a young wench, a prophetess, and a Latin-bred woman. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A face with gladness overspread! Soft smiles, by human kindness bred! [ Wordsworth ]

A well-bred dog goes out when he sees them preparing to kick him out. [ Scotch Proverb ]

Civility is a desire to receive civility, and to be accounted well bred. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

A morning sun and a wine-bred child and a Latinbred woman seldom end well. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A well-bred youth neither speaks of himself, nor, being spoken to, is silent. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

True gladness doth not always speak; joy bred and born but in the tongue is weak. [ Ben Jonson ]

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished; but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred. [ Charles Buxton ]

No girl who is well bred, kind, and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners or of heart. [ John Ruskin ]

Fame, as a river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off; so exemplary writers depend not upon the gratitude of the world. [ Sir W. Davenant ]

I like books. I was born and bred among them, and have the easy feeling when I get in their presence, that a stable-boy has among horses. [ O. W. Holmes ]

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company. [ Swift ]

Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it pointblank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. [ William Shakespeare ]

"No" is a surly, honest fellow--speaks his mind rough and round at once. "But" is a sneaking, evasive, half-bred, exceptuous sort of conjunction, which comes to pull away the cup just when it is at your lips. [ Scott ]

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes; and if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred, or awkward, he will hate you more and longer than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue. [ Chesterfield ]

Nor do we accept as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament. [ Alcott ]

bred in Scrabble®

The word bred is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

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bred in Words With Friends™

The word bred is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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Word Growth involving bred

Shorter words in bred

re red

Longer words containing bred

countrybred

crossbred crossbreds

fibred

halfbred

illbred

inbred inbreds

interbred

lowbred

outbred

overbred

rebred purebred purebreds

rubredoxin rubredoxins

sabred

saddlebred

standardbred standardbreds

thoroughbred thoroughbreds

throughbred

unbred

underbred

wellbred