English words for 'Opposing or preventing breeding.'
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verb
- (intransitive) To breed or propagate.
- (intransitive) To grow in number.
- (transitive) To increase the amount, degree or number of (something).
- (transitive, arithmetic, with by) To perform multiplication on (a number).
- (transitive, rare) To be a factor in a multiplication with (another factor).
- (intransitive, arithmetic) To perform multiplication.
- combine by multiplication
- combine or increase by multiplication
- make multiple copies of
- have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant
- have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)
adv
noun
noun
- (genetics) Something that prevents or greatly reduces gene expression.
- An attachment to a gun that reduces the sound it emits.
- The muffler of an internal combustion engine.
- Any of various devices to silence the humming noise of telegraph wires.
- a tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise
- short tube attached to the muzzle of a gun that deadens the sound of firing
verb
- (intransitive) To increase in number; to breed.
- (transitive) To supply with inhabitants; to people.
- (computing, ambitransitive) To fill initially empty items in a collection.
- (transitive) To live in; to inhabit.
- (electronics) To fill initially empty slots or sockets on a circuit board or similar.
- fill with inhabitants
- be an inhabitant of or reside in
verb
- impede or hinder the natural development or self-expression of
- block the action of
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- put out of one's consciousness
- put down by force or intimidation
- (transitive) To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.
- To press again.
- (transitive, by extension) To check; to keep back.
noun
noun
- (uncountable, agriculture) Control of a pest through propagation of sterile males.
- (rare) One who commits suicide.
- An act of killing someone with an automobile.
- An act of suicide committed by crashing an automobile.
- (countable and uncountable, bacteriology) A substance produced by a bacterium that is fatal to that bacterium.
adj
- relating to the raising of plants or animals
- denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people
- of or relating to the shared knowledge and values of a society
- of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors
- (technical) Due to human activity.
- Pertaining to culture.
verb
- To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.
- (intransitive) To become (much) smaller.
- (transitive) To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny; to be much larger than.
- (transitive) To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version).
- (transitive) To make appear insignificant.
- make appear small by comparison
- check the growth of
adj
noun
- (mythology) Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves.
- (astronomy) A dwarf star.
- An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort.
- (now sometimes offensive) A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with typical adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition.
- a plant or animal that is atypically small
- a person who is markedly small
- a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
noun
verb
verb
noun
- (genetics) The breeding of an individual with a phenotypically recessive individual, in order to determine the zygosity of the former by analysing proportions of offspring phenotypes.
- a cross between an organism whose genotype for a certain trait is unknown and an organism that is homozygous recessive for that trait so the unknown genotype can be determined from that of the offspring
noun
- (genetics) Something that prevents or greatly reduces gene expression.
- An attachment to a gun that reduces the sound it emits.
- The muffler of an internal combustion engine.
- Any of various devices to silence the humming noise of telegraph wires.
- a tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise
- short tube attached to the muzzle of a gun that deadens the sound of firing
noun
- (uncountable, agriculture) Control of a pest through propagation of sterile males.
- (rare) One who commits suicide.
- An act of killing someone with an automobile.
- An act of suicide committed by crashing an automobile.
- (countable and uncountable, bacteriology) A substance produced by a bacterium that is fatal to that bacterium.
noun
verb
verb
- (intransitive) To breed or propagate.
- (intransitive) To grow in number.
- (transitive) To increase the amount, degree or number of (something).
- (transitive, arithmetic, with by) To perform multiplication on (a number).
- (transitive, rare) To be a factor in a multiplication with (another factor).
- (intransitive, arithmetic) To perform multiplication.
- combine by multiplication
- combine or increase by multiplication
- make multiple copies of
- have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant
- have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)
adv
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To increase in number; to breed.
- (transitive) To supply with inhabitants; to people.
- (computing, ambitransitive) To fill initially empty items in a collection.
- (transitive) To live in; to inhabit.
- (electronics) To fill initially empty slots or sockets on a circuit board or similar.
- fill with inhabitants
- be an inhabitant of or reside in
verb
- impede or hinder the natural development or self-expression of
- block the action of
- suppress in order to conceal or hide
- put out of one's consciousness
- put down by force or intimidation
- (transitive) To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.
- To press again.
- (transitive, by extension) To check; to keep back.
noun
verb
- To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.
- (intransitive) To become (much) smaller.
- (transitive) To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny; to be much larger than.
- (transitive) To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version).
- (transitive) To make appear insignificant.
- make appear small by comparison
- check the growth of
adj
noun
- (mythology) Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves.
- (astronomy) A dwarf star.
- An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort.
- (now sometimes offensive) A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with typical adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition.
- a plant or animal that is atypically small
- a person who is markedly small
- a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
verb
noun
- (genetics) The breeding of an individual with a phenotypically recessive individual, in order to determine the zygosity of the former by analysing proportions of offspring phenotypes.
- a cross between an organism whose genotype for a certain trait is unknown and an organism that is homozygous recessive for that trait so the unknown genotype can be determined from that of the offspring
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adj
- relating to the raising of plants or animals
- denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people
- of or relating to the shared knowledge and values of a society
- of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors
- (technical) Due to human activity.
- Pertaining to culture.