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pro·cre·ate
 procreate
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- pronunciation:
- pro
kri
eIt
- parts of speech:
- transitive verb, intransitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
procreates, procreating, procreated |
| definition 1: |
to beget or give life to (offspring).
- synonyms:
- bear, beget, conceive, engender, propagate
- similar words:
- breed, deliver, father, generate, mother, reproduce, sire, spawn
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| definition 2: |
to create or produce.
- synonyms:
- beget, create, engender, generate, mother, produce
- similar words:
- bear, breed, conceive, effect, father, occasion, spawn
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| related words: |
propagate |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition: |
to beget young; reproduce.
- synonyms:
- breed, propagate, reproduce
- similar words:
- bear, conceive, deliver, increase, multiply, proliferate, spawn
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| related words: |
mate, propagate |
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| derivations: |
procreative (adj.), procreation (n.), procreativeness (n.), procreator (n.) |
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