Groups and collections

Synonyms for breed

Synonyms for breed: stock and multiply. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 2, Treeline · 2 senses · noun and verb · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The 2 synonyms for breed

stocknoun, in the sense "a special variety of domesticated animals within a species"
multiplyverb, in the sense "have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)"

All two are filed under breed's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.

Sense 1 of 2nounTier 2, TreelineGroups and collections

a special variety of domesticated animals within a species

He experimented on a particular breed of white rats.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

stock

Same sentence, swapped: He experimented on a particular stock of white rats.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for breed in the sentence quoted.

pod
herd
character

Sense 2 of 2verbTier 3, RidgelineThe body

have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)

Pandas rarely breed in captivity.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

multiply

Same sentence, swapped: Pandas rarely multiply in captivity.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where breed stands in the sentence above.

brood
incubate
set

Where breed turns up in the game

breed is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where breed is the trap

multiplyverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is manifold, in the sense "combine or increase by multiplication", and breed is on the board beside it.

Play breed

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so breed reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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A reason under every answer, not just a right answer

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