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BRED

Definition: BRED

BRED

1. Imp. & p. p. of Breed.

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Breed

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BRED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

 

Synonyms within Context: BRED

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Intemperance

Paphian, Epicurean, Sybaritical; bred in the lap of luxury, nursed in the lap of luxury; indulged, pampered; full-fed, high-fed.

Intrinsicality

Adjective: derived from within, subjective; intrinsic, intrinsical; fundamental, normal; implanted, inherent, essential, natural; innate, inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought; coeval with birth, genetous, haematobious, syngenic; radical, incarnate, thoroughbred, hereditary, inherited, immanent; congenital, congenite; connate, running in the blood; ingenerate, ingenite; indigenous; in the grain; Noun: bred in the bone, instinctive; inward, internal; to the manner born; virtual.

Vulgarity

Unkempt. uncombed, untamed, unlicked, unpolished, uncouth; plebeian; incondite; heavy, rude, awkward; homely, homespun, home bred; provincial, countrified, rustic; boorish, clownish; savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish; barbarous, barbaric; Gothic,

Dowdy; slovenly; (dirty); ungenteel, shabby genteel; low, common, hoi polloi; (plebeian); uncourtly; uncivil; (discourteous); ill bred, ill mannered; underbred; ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike; unladylike, unfeminine; wild, wild as an unbacked colt.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: BRED

English words defined with "BRED": Airedale, Airedale terrier, Amnigenousbangtail, Bred out, budgereegah, budgerigar, budgerygah, budgieCart horse, chicken, chinchilla, Chinchilla laniger, chrysanthemum dog, Citiner, Civily, Clydesdale terrier, Courtbred, coypu, crossbreddeerhoundferret, fighting cock, Fly cap, Fly fishing, Fly flapGallus gallus, gamecock, grass parakeet, Great PyreneesHigh-bred, Home-bred, homing pigeonIbizan hound, Ibizan Podenco, interbredlovebird, Low-livedMelopsittacus undulatus, milch, mountain chinchilla, mountain viscacha, Myocastor coypusnutriaOstrich farm, otter hound, otterhound, outbred, oyster bank, oyster bed, oyster parkpolo pony, purebredquarter horserace horse, racehorse, Rock Cornish henSaint Bernard, Scottish deerhound, scrub, Sealyham, Sealyham terrier, Serpentigenous, shell parakeet, Standard-bred, stud farm, SwanneryThumb mark, Tibetan terrierWell bred, Wolf dog, working dog. (references)
Specialty definitions using "BRED": Albiazar, ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATORbred animalsCow-calf operatordomestic rodentfarmed game meat, FARMER, GENERAL, Farrow-to-finish, feral piggenetic programmingIdle Worms, inseminatorMice, Inbred SENCAR, Mice, Knockoutpet animalsRats, Inbred DahlShip of the Desert, silk filature, silk-farm, Stone of the Broken Treaty, supplying establishment. (references)
Etymologies containing "BRED": Citiner. (references)
Non-English Usage: "BRED" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (bank, border, broad, edge, shore), Norwegian (broad), Swedish (broad, sweeping, wide).

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Modern Usage: BRED

DomainUsage

Screenplays

It is an army bred for a single purpose - to destroy the world of men. They will be here by nightfall (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; writing credit: Roald Dahl)

There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco)

Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word by thee, old Capulet, and you, Montague if ever you disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace (Romeo + Juliet; writing credit: Craig Pearce)

I bred you (Zardoz; writing credit: John Boorman)

Lyrics

My home's in Alabama, Southern born and Southern bred ("My Home's in Alabama"; performing artist: Alabama)

Southern born and Southern bred ("My Home's in Alabama"; performing artist: Alabama)

So well bred (Jealousy; performing artist: Natalie Merchant)

Movie/TV Titles

Bred in Old Kentucky (1926)

What's Bred... Comes Out in the Flesh (1916)

Bred in the Bone (1915)

Born and Bred (2002)

Bred vdvoyom (1995)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: BRED

DomainTitle

Books

  • Bred for War (Battletech, Book 16) (reference)

  • Calder Born, Calder Bred (reference)

  • Montana Bred (2 Novels in 1) (reference)

  • The Welsh Terrier: Leads the Way (The Pure Bred Series) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: BRED

Computer Images:
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Photo Album: BRED

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The New Zealanders maintained a dog sled team at the time of this photo. Dogs came from a Greenland lineage now bred at Scott Base. Dogs are no longer permitted in Antarctica. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

One of the sows bred and raised on Tom Reed farm. They have about 300 hogs, all raised there. Mr. Reed said they had not bought any hogs since his father first came to this place about fifty years ago. He says, "I like hogs. I'm more a hog farmer than a c. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: BRED

AuthorQuotation

Daniel Defoe

A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behavior, is a creature without comparison.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

William Congreve

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: BRED

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

For there are no examples so frequent in history, both sacred and profane, as those of men withdrawing themselves, and their obedience, from the jurisdiction they were born under, and the family or community they were bred up in, and setting up new governments in other places; from whence sprang all that number of petty commonwealths in the beginning of ages, and which always multiplied, as long as there was room enough, till the stronger, or more fortunate, swallowed the weaker; and those great ones again breaking to pieces, dissolved into lesser dominions. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: BRED

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

At Hartfield, you have had very good specimens of well educated, well bred men.

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

I was bred in this place

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

His mind bred vermin

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

The urging of that word judgment hath bred a kind of remorse in me.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Huddled under sheds, lying in wet hay, the hunger and the fear bred anger

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

To remedy which there was a sort of people bred up among us, in the profession or pretense of curing the sick

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: BRED

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

In other words, scientists bred mice in which the cell death program was genetically suppressed. (references)

Another promising area of research using the body's natural pain-killing abilities is the transplantation of chromaffin cells into the spinal cords of animals bred experimentally to develop arthritis. (references)

Laboratory animals, such as mice, are being bred in the hope of duplicating the clinical features of HD and can soon be expected to help scientists learn more about the symptoms and progression of the disease. (references)

Economic History

Djibouti

However, it is the Issas who presently dominate the government, civil service, and the ruling party, a situation that has bred resentment and political competition between the Somali Issas and the Afars. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: BRED

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Woodrow Wilson

1913-1921We shall be the more American if we but remain true to the principles in which we have been bred.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: BRED

"BRED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 64.51% of the time. "BRED" is used about 509 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)64.51%32915,846
Lexical Verb (past tense)29.41%15025,701
Adjective (general or positive)4.9%2569,787
Noun (proper)1.18%6143,867
                    Total100.00%509N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: BRED

Expressions using "BRED": born and bred bred animals Bred out Bred to arms home bred ill bred well bred. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "BRED": american-bred, captive-bred, in-bred, part-bred, scottish-bred, tank-bred, town-bred, well-bred.

Containing "BRED": well-bred woman.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BRED

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bred

68

pure bred

4

pure bred dog

39

bred captive seahorses

4

pioneer hi bred

24

pioneer hi bred international inc

4

bred english field spaniels springer

23

black bred wife

4

game bred pitbull

21

1700 athlon bred t xp

4

bred field spaniels springer

19

bred european puppy

4

bred field puppy spaniel springer

16

bred pit

4

black bred

14

pure bred cat

3

the standard bred horse

12

bred friesians pure

3

born and bred

12

bred game kennel pitbull

3

bred bull game pit

10

bred bull game information pit

3

bred dog game

8

bred captive turtle

3

bred puppy pure

7

bred dina vida vingar

3

b b bred champion german

6

bred puppy pure sale

3

standard bred

6

bred cross dog

3

bred pitt

6

breast bred four her into

3

pioneer hi bred international

6

bred german german shepherd

3

american saddle bred

6

bred captive reptile

2

bred game pit

5

bred english field spaniel springer

2

standard bred canada

4

bred bull champion pit

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BRED

Language Translations for "BRED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

dërrasë (batten, board, plank, planking, shingle). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مربي (breeder, raiser), ‏تربية الماشية, ‏ربى (breed, bring up, cradle, educate, foster, invest, keep, nourish, nurse, nurture, raise, rear, school, sprout, tutor). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

породен (caused, engendered). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

养殖 (Breed, Breeding). (various references)

   

Czech

  

chovaný. (various references)

   

Danish

  

Undergruppe vedroerende fri samhandel med avlskvaeg af ren race inden for Faellesskabet (Subgroup on Free Trade in Pure-bred Breeding Animals within the Community), renavlet (pure bred, straight bred), racerent avlssvin (pure-bred breeding pig), racerent avlsdyr (pure bred breeding animal), opdraettet vildt (game reared in captivity, game that has been bred), opdrættede dyr (bred animals). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

wild uit een fokkerij (game reared in captivity, game that has been bred), Subgroep Vrij handelsverkeer binnen de Gemeenschap in fokvee van zuiver ras (Subgroup on Free Trade in Pure-bred Breeding Animals within the Community), raszuiver fokvarken (pure-bred breeding pig), rasecht (pure bred, straight bred), kruisingskip (cross bred fowl, hybrid), hybride (cross bred fowl, hybrid), gefokte dieren (bred animals), fokdier van zuiver ras (pure bred breeding animal). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

siitä (from it), sekarotuinen (cross-bred, of mixed blood, of mixed breed), puhdasrotuinen jalostussika (pure-bred breeding pig), puhdasrotuinen (pure-blooded, thoroughbred), paljasjalkainen (barefoot, born and bred), hyvinkasvatettu (well brought up, well-bred). (various references)

   

French

  

élevé. (various references)

   

German

  

züchten (breed, grow). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πρλθ. του breed. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מחונך (educated, gentleman, well bred), לא מחונך (ill bred, uneducated), לא מנומס (discourteous, ill bred, impolite, rude, uncivil). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tenyésztett, tenyészt (breed, to breed, to propagate, to raise, to rear), okoz (beget, bring about, bring forth, cause, gave, give rise to, given, inflict, to breed, to bring forth, to effect, to engender, to generate, to give, to inchoate, to induce, to inflict, to motivate, to occasion, to produce, to provoke), nevel (to discipline), nemz (to gender), kiképez (drill, to breed, to drill, to front, to hew out, to nuzzle, to train, to train sy for sg, train), költ (to brood, to expend, to versify). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

kurang ajar (bold, brash, brazen, disrespectful, ill-bred). (various references)

   

Italian

  

beneducato (well bred), suino riproduttore di razza pura (pure-bred breeding pig), Sottogruppo " Libertà di scambi, all'interno della Comunità, di animali riproduttori di razza pura " (Subgroup on Free Trade in Pure-bred Breeding Animals within the Community), pollo d'incrocio (cross bred fowl, hybrid), malnato (ill bred, miscreated), maleducato (boor, boorish, bounder, cad, caddish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, mannerless, rude, underbred), animali da allevamento (bred animals), animale selvatico proveniente da allevamento (game reared in captivity, game that has been bred), animale riproduttore di razza pura (pure bred breeding animal). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

肉用種 (animal bred for its meat), 田舎育ち (country bred). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

にくようしゅ (animal bred for its meat), いなかそだち (country bred). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

사육하는. (various references)

   

Manx

  

troggit (blistered, built, contracted, elevated, lifted, lofted, raised, reared, trained), sheelrit. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

edbray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

suíno reprodutor de raça pura (pure-bred breeding pig), frango híbrido (cross bred fowl, hybrid), fino (fine, thin, delicate, slender, subtle), criado em raça pura (pure bred, straight bred), criado em linha pura (pure bred, straight bred), caça de criação (game reared in captivity, game that has been bred), animal reprodutor de raça pura (pure bred breeding animal), animais de criação especial (bred animals). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

trecut şi participiu trecut de la breed. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

выводить (deduce, extricate), доска (blackboard, board, chalkboard, punchboard, trencher), дощечка (nameplate, planch). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

proš. vreme i particip od breed. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pret y pp de breed. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

uppfött. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

terbiyesiz (bad, blackguard, blackguardly, broad, caddish, churlish, coarse, coarse grained, dirty, graceless, ill bred, ill mannered, immodest, immoral, impertinent, impolite, improper, impudent, indelicate, inelegant, insolent, mannerless, naughty, ribald, risky, risque, rude, scabrous, shameless, uncultured, underbred, undressed, unmannerly, unpolished), soylu (aristocrat, aristocratic, aristocratical, blue blood, born in the purple, genteel, gently born, grand, high, noble, noble blood, of gentle birth, of good family, patrician, pedigreed, princely, silk stocking, thoroughbred, titled, truebred, u, well born, well bred), melez (cross, crossbred, half breed, half caste, halfblood, halfblooded, half-bred, hybrid, mestizo, mixed, mongrel, mulatto), kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, foul, graceless, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, hobnailed, hoggish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, offhand, offhanded, ornery, puffy, rank, rough, rough-hewn, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, short-spoken, splay, swinish, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, uncouth, underbred, unfinished, ungainly, ungalant, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unmannerly, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), kötü huylu (bad tempered, cankered, ill bred, ill disposed, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-affected, ill-humored, ill-humoured, of bad character, perverse, wicked), görgüsüz (graceless, ill bred, mannerless, provincial, uncouth, underbred, unmannerly), görgülü (cultivated, cultured, experienced, of good manners, well bred), doğma büyüme (born and bred, grassroots, native born), cins (blooded, breed, cast, class, diversity, gender, genus, kind, pedigree, pedigreed, persuasion, pure blooded, pureblooded, purebred, quality, race, sex, species, stripe, type, variety, well bred), asil (aristocratic, aristocratical, blue blood, born in the purple, bottom, dignified, foundation, gently born, grand, ground, lineage, lordly, noble, of gentle birth, of noble birth, origin, royal, sublime, superior, well bred). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

дошка (board, planch, table). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

nòi (breed, high-bred, pedigreed, true-bred), giống dòng dõi (breed). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Bible Trace: BRED

LanguageDateSourceGenesis Chapter 45, Verse 23
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKai tw patri autou apesteilen kata ta auta kai deka onouV airontaV apo pantwn twn agaqwn aiguptou kai deka hmionouV airousaV artouV tw patri autou eiV odon
Latin405VulgateTantundem pecuniae et vestium mittens patri suo addens eis asinos decem qui subveherent ex omnibus divitiis Aegypti et totidem asinas triticum in itinere panesque portantes
Middle English1395WyclifAs feele of money and of clothing seendynge to his fader, addynge to hem ten hee assis, that shulden karye of alle the ricchessis of Egipte, and as feele she assis, whete in the weye, and breed berynge.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAnd vnto his father he sent after the same maner: .x. he asses laden with good out of Egipte and .x. she asses laden with corne bred and meate: to serue his father by the waye.
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with corn and bread and meat, for his father by the way.
Basic English1964OgdenAnd to his father he sent ten asses with good things from Egypt on their backs, and ten she-asses with grain and bread and food for his father on the journey.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: BRED

LanguageGenesis Chapter 45, Verse 23
CebuanoUg sa iyang amahan iyang gipadala kini: napulo ka asno nga lake nga giluwanan sa labing maayo sa Egipto, ug napulo ka asno nga baye nga giluwanan sa trigo, ug tinapay, ug pagkaon alang sa iyang amahan sa dalan.
CroatianIsto tako pošalje svome ocu: deset magaraca natovarenih najboljim plodovima egipatskim i deset magarica natovarenih žitom, kruhom i namirnicama ocu za put.
Danishog sin Fader sendte han ti Æsler med det bedste, der var i Ægypten og ti Aseninder med Korn, Brød og Rejsetæring til Faderen.
DutchEn zijn vader desgelijks zond hij tien ezelen, dragende van het beste van Egypte, en tien ezelinnen, dragende koren, en brood, en spijze voor zijn vader op den weg.
FinnishSamoin hän lähetti isälleen lahjaksi kymmenen aasia, jotka olivat kuormitetut Egyptin parhaimmilla tavaroilla, ja kymmenen aasintammaa, jotka kantoivat viljaa ja leipää sekä eväitä hänen isälleen matkaa varten.
FrenchIl envoya à son père dix ânes chargés de ce qu`il y avait de meilleur en Égypte, et dix ânesses chargées de blé, de pain et de vivres, pour son père pendant le voyage.
GermanUnd seinem Vater sandte er dabei zehn Esel, mit Gut aus Ägypten beladen, und zehn Eselinnen mit Getreide und Brot und Speise seinem Vater auf den Weg.
HungarianAtyjának pedig külde ilyenképen: tíz szamarat égyiptomi javakkal terhelve, és tíz nõstény szamarat gabonával, kenyérrel és egyéb élelemmel terhelve, az õ atyjának az útra.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariIa mengirimkan kepada ayahnya sepuluh ekor keledai yang dibebani dengan barang-barang yang terbaik dari Mesir, dan sepuluh keledai lagi yang dibebani dengan gandum, roti dan makanan lain untuk dimakan dalam perjalanannya ke Mesir.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaMaka kepada bapanya dikirimnyalah ini: sepuluh ekor keledai jantan yang muat barang yang indah-indah dari negeri Mesir, dan sepuluh ekor keledai betina yang muat gandum dan roti dan pelbagai makanan bagi bapanya di jalan.
MaoriA ko nga mea tenei i homai e ia kia kawea ki tona papa; kotahi tekau nga kaihe e waha ana i nga mea papai o Ihipa, me nga kaihe uha kotahi tekau, ko ta ratou kawenga he witi, he taro, hei kai ma tona papa ki te ara.
NorwegianLikeledes sendte han til sin far ti asener som bar av det beste Egypten hadde, og ti aseninner som bar korn og brød og fødevarer for hans far. på reisen.
PortugueseE a seu pai enviou o seguinte: dez jumentos carregados do melhor do Egito, e dez jumentas carregadas de trigo, pão e provisão para seu pai, para o caminho.   
RumanianTatqlui squ i -a trimes zece mqgari kncqrcayi cu ce era mai bun kn Egipt, wi zece mqgqriye kncqrcate cu grku, pkne wi merinde, pentru ca sq aibq pe drum.
SwedishOch till sin fader sände han likaledes gåvor: tio åsnor, lastade med det bästa Egypten hade, och tio åsninnor, lastade med säd och bröd och andra livsmedel åt hans fader för resan.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: BRED

Derivations

Words beginning with "BRED": brede, bredes. (additional references)

Words ending with "BRED": calibred, colorbred, crossbred, highbred, homebred, inbred, interbred, linebred, lowbred, outbred, overbred, purebred, rebred, sabred, saddlebred, standardbred, straightbred, thoroughbred, truebred, unbred, underbred. (additional references)

Words containing "BRED": crossbreds, homebreds, inbreds, purebreds, saddlebreds, standardbreds, straightbreds, thoroughbreds. (additional references)


Misspellings

"BRED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abred, bedr, beed, berc, Berd, bered, brd, bre, bredde, breds, Bredun, Bredy, bree, breeb, breev, bref, breg, brei, brek, brel, breld, Brem, breo, breq, brer, Br'er, bretz, breud, brev, brewd, brex, Brey, brez, bridd, brod, brrod, byed, byrde, byrled, rbet, vred, xbred, yred, zred. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "BRED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "BRED" (pronounced bre"d)
4b r e" dbread, interbred, purebred, thoroughbred.
3-r e" ddread, read, red, Redd, retread, shred, spread, thread, tread, unread, widespread.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: BRED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-e-r"

-1 letter: bed, deb, reb, red.

-2 letters: be, de, ed, er, re.

 Words containing the letters "b-d-e-r"
 

+1 letter: ardeb, barde, bared, beard, bider, bored, bread, brede, breed, bride, debar, derby, orbed, rebid, redub, robed.

 

+2 letters: abider, abrade, adverb, ardebs, badder, badger, balder, bander, barbed, barded, bardes, barfed, barged, barked, barred, beards, bedder, bedrid, bedrug, begird, bender, bidder, biders, binder, birded, birder, birdie, birled, birred, blared, bolder, bonder, bordel, border, boride, braced, braked, braved, brayed, brazed, breads, bready, bredes, breeds, brewed, bribed, brides, bridge, bridle, brined, browed, bruted, budder, budger, burden, burdie, buried, burked, burled, burned, burped, burred, byrled, curbed, dabber, dauber, debark, debars, debris, debtor, desorb, dibber, dobber, dubber, dumber, garbed, herbed, inbred, kerbed, probed, rebids, rebind, rebody, rebred, redbay, redbud, redbug, redubs, ribbed, robbed, rubbed, rubied, sabred, serdab, sorbed, unbred, verbid.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Quotations: Historic
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Quotations: Speeches
12. Usage Frequency
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Bible Trace
17. Derivations
18. Rhymes
19. Anagrams
20. Bibliography


  

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