procreate

Verb

Meaning

To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

reproduce multiply father bear spawn generate breed propagate conceive beget bring forth produce offspring make produce cause
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Antonyms

end close damage break stop kill
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Hypernyms

make create

Hyponyms

set hatch cover breed propagate multiply

Phrases with the word

unable to procreate

Derivatives

procreated procreating

Examples

We're supposed to procreate and society, god knows, is ferocious on the subject. Heterosexuality is considered such a great and natural good that you have to execute people and put them in prison if they don't practice this glorious act. Gore Vidal

Vomit and feces are two reason I have decided not to procreate. Chelsea Handler

I'd like to find someone to procreate with - as sexy as that sounds. If you're out and about and fit the description, come up and say hi. I won't bite. Well, maybe a little, if you're lucky. Chloë Sevigny

The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution. Robert Bork

I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate. George Murray

I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the World without this trivial and vulgar way of union it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life nor is there any. Thomas Browne

Close letter words and terms

procrasturbate procrasturbation procreant procreater procreation procreational