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procreate
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To beget or conceive (offspring). 2 (context transitive English) To originate, create or produce something. 3 (context intransitive English) To reproduce.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, a back formation from procreation or else from Latin procreatus , past participle of procreare "to beget, bring forth" (see procreation ). Related: Procreated ; procreating .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Procreate \Pro"cre*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Procreated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Procreating .] [L. procreatus, p. p. of procreare; pro forward, forth + create to create.] To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Livings together will happen in abundance, of course; but marriage will be another matter: marriage will imply intent to procreate . ▪ Pauline candidly admits that some of the ancestors he cannibalized to procreate these monsters ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. have offspring or young; "The deer in our neighborhood reproduce madly"; "The Catholic Church tells people to procreate, no matter what their economic situation may be" [syn: reproduce , multiply ]
Usage examples of procreate.
Right now the way I feel about you, the way I want you, has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with any desire to procreate a new generation.
The perfect creatures at most engender a single child, and the best of them, like you, decide not to procreate at all.
By subordinating the obligation to procreate, rejecting divorce, and implicitly sanctioning monogamous relationships, Jesus reverses traditional priorities, declaring, in effect, that other obligations, including marital ones, are now more important than procreation.
And wanting babies was an outgrowth of the desire to procreate, triggered by hormones.
To remain physically healthy they needed to exercise their jaws and teeth and massive, armored bodies, and the time of maximum effort and enjoyment, except for the brief period every year when they were able to procreate, was when they were eating.
The refusal of a great many of his characters, among them Jacques, Jakub, Tomas, Sabina or Rubens, to procreate, must be considered in the light of this paradox.
Nature seeks to produce the beautiful and therefore by all reason cannot desire to procreate in the ugly.
Only through the act of sharing our blood can we procreate, and for us the taking of blood is far more intimate and passionate than mortal lovemaking ever could be.
The dust bunnies in his apartment were hopping around today, taking on a life of their own, and seeming to procreate in accordance with their reputation.
The Poles and Czechs and most of the French had been persecuted, prevented from mating and procreating, and finally even sterilized, until their stock had been completely destroyed.
The Priestesses themselves could do nothing but eat and procreate, and the nonspecialized servant males were too weak and degenerated to fly at all.
Since it is a rigid Maasai social custom to procreate only with other Maasai, the probability of a hereditary relationship between Maasai Laibon and Bukoba Mandaka is 98.
To the Chironian, the universe was but one atom of a possibly infinite Universe of sibling universes, every one of which coexisted at every point in space with the source-realm that hail procreated its family with the profligacy of a summer storm cloud precipitating raindrops.
Yesod is the drop that springs from the arrow to produce the tree and the fruit, it is the anima mundi, the moment in which virile force, procreating, binds all the states of being together.
If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.