Inbred \In"bred`\, a.
Bred within; innate; as, inbred worth. "Inbred sentiments."
--Burke.
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Inbreed \In*breed"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inbred; p. pr. & vb.
n. Inbreeding.] [Cf. Imbreed.]
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1. To produce or generate within. --Bp. Reynolds.
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To inbreed and cherish . . . the seeds of virtue.
--Milton.
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2. To breed in and in. See under Breed, v. i.
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inbred
See inbreed
WordNet (r) 2.0
inbred
adj 1: produced by inbreeding [ant: outbred]
2: normally existing at birth; "mankind's connatural sense of
the good" [syn: connatural, inborn, native]
WordNet (r) 2.0
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "inbred":
atavistic, bodily, born, coeval, congenital, connatal, connate,
connatural, constitutional, crossbred, endogamic, endogamous,
exogamic, exogamous, genetic, hereditary, impregnated,
in the blood, inborn, incarnate, indigenous, inherited, innate,
inseminated, instinctive, instinctual, linebred, native, native to,
natural, natural to, organic, outbred, physical, primal,
temperamental
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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