Dictionary Entry

bred

Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/bɹɛd/Used In Literature ↓

To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.

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Common Phrases

. bredbred well

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Poetry examples for “bred”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

To skies that knit their heartstrings right,
To fields that bred them brave,
The saviours come not home to-night:

Far in a western brookland
That bred me long ago
The poplars stand and tremble

"I will go where I am wanted, to a lady born and bred
Who will dress me free for nothing in a uniform of red;

Maul the French tyrant, or pull down the Pope!
If there's a Briton then, true bred and born,
Who holds dragoons and wooden shoes in scorn; 20

Say what strange motive, Goddess! could compel
A well-bred Lord t' assault a gentle Belle?
O say what stranger cause, yet unexplor'd,

Still with esteem no less conversed than read;
With wit well-natured, and with books well-bred:
His heart, his mistress, and his friend did share,

I swear by all th' unpitying powers of Heaven, 70
No wilful crime this heavy vengeance bred;
In mutual innocence our lives we led:

2 Beneath thy roof, Argyll, are bred
Such thoughts as prompt the brave to lie

Say what strange motive, Goddess! could compel
A well-bred lord t'assault a gentle belle?
Oh, say what stranger cause, yet unexplored,

Dawn's cloudlets close,
Earth's brightest-bred
Rose!