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to reproduce (children or offspring)More rarely, procreate can mean to produce something other than children or offspring.
- The mountain gorilla is an endangered species and doesn't procreate well in captivity.
- Their population has been shrinking, so now the country has passed laws to encourage procreation.
- The Catholic Church tells people to procreate, no matter what their economic situation may be
- She seemed receptive, so I launched into my Don't Procreate with Losers speech. . . .P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Marked
- Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card.George Orwell -- 1984
- He believed that mankind's ability to procreate is so great that there are always more children born than can survive.Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
- It is clear that each of the three stages of procreation represents an epoch in the development of the world.Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
- But chiefly, the injury is symbolic of the destruction of possibilities, spiritual as well as procreative, accomplished by the war.Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
- And did I want the Celestial Kingdom, anyway, where women are relegated to polygamy and procreation, gestating new souls to fill earthbound bodies?Ellen Hopkins -- Burned
- Baphomet's head was represented as that of a ram or goat, a common symbol of procreation and fecundity.Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
- The Bureau is obsessed with procreation—with passing on genes.Veronica Roth -- Allegiant
- "In order to support and aid those men poorly equipped for procreation," Pilar said, "if there is nothing to see I am going."Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- It had to do with a grander scheme of procreation.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- He must have known what an oddity it was for a human and a vampire to procreate, so of course he would have wondered if Vlad was the Pravus.Heather Brewer -- Tenth Grade Bleeds
- And if it really was the end of the world, Lilly would be dead, so she'd never know her brother and I were procreating!Meg Cabot -- The Princess Diaries
- The ancients decorated their sarcophagi with symbols of life and procreation, some of them even obscene.Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
- Some families grow on and on through the centuries, hardy and visible and procreative.Joy Kogawa -- Obasan
- He also stands against procreation regulation, gender adjustment, chemical balancing, and the gun ban.J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
- That once seemingly eternal window of procreative opportunity was slowly lowering.John Grogan -- Marley & Me
- George built his blacksmith shop hard by the stone-and-log house in which Ida Rebecca ruled, and there he pursued a life of piety, toil, and procreation.Russell Baker -- Growing Up
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
procreate = reproduce (have children)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
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