{
    "term": "breed",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "breed",
            "heSheIt": "breeds"
        },
        "pastSimple": "bred",
        "pastParticiple": "bred",
        "ingForm": "breeding"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to have sex and produce young",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Many animals breed only at certain times of the year."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Birds", "Animals"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["in captivity", "successfully", "commercially"],
                "preposition": ["for"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to keep animals or plants in order to produce young ones for a particular purpose",
            "sensetop": "breed something (for/as something)breed from something",
            "labels": "(North American English)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The rabbits are bred for their long coats.",
                    "contextForm": "breed something (for/as something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Greyhounds were originally bred as hunting dogs."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the first panda to be bred in captivity"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's a lovely cat. Will you breed from her?",
                    "contextForm": "breed from something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "dogs that are bred for their fighting ability"
                },
                {
                    "text": "fish that have been selectively bred for their appearance"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The otters were bred in captivity and then released into the wild."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Farming"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["in captivity", "successfully", "commercially"],
                "preposition": ["for"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to be the cause of something",
            "sensetop": "breed something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Nothing breeds success like success."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to educate somebody in a particular way as they are growing up",
            "sensetop": "breed something into somebody",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Fear of failure was bred into him at an early age."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "born and having grown up in a particular place with a particular background and education",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He was born and bred in Boston."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm a Londoner, born and bred."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to have a lot of babies in a short space of time",
            "labels": "(informal, often offensive)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "knowing somebody/something very well may cause you to lose respect for them/it",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/briːd/",
                "audio": "br/breed/breed__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/briːdz/",
                "audio": "br/breed/breeds__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/bred/",
                "audio": "br/breed/bred__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbriːdɪŋ/",
                "audio": "br/breed/breeding__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/briːd/",
                "audio": "br/breed/breed__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/briːdz/",
                "audio": "br/breed/breeds__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/bred/",
                "audio": "br/breed/bred__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbriːdɪŋ/",
                "audio": "br/breed/breeding__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English brēdan ‘produce (offspring), bear (a child)’, of Germanic origin; related to German brüten, also to brood."
}