Bred
Mated
Mated adjective - Mated sexually.
Both words in one sentence
- Subverted in one issue of The Sandman; a cat states that she thought she was the owner of her humans, until she mated with a stray and her master threw the kittens in a river, due to her being a pure-bred Siamese and her half-breed offspring being worthless to him.
Source: This Is My Human
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Mated and Bred. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/bred/mated
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