Breed
Breed verb - To be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind).
Usage example: this habit of favoring one employee over the others will breed resentment
Kill
Kill verb - To deprive of life.
How words are described
| good | good breed | good kill |
| low | low breed | low kill |
| special | special breed | special kill |
| particular | particular breed | particular kill |
| Other adjectives: normal, certain, original, single, powerful, real, successful, big, next, alternate, higher. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- In distant past, they have managed to breed out the so-called "wolf gene", which allowed one to kill without remorse.
Source: We Have Become Complacent - In fact, at least one splat claims that every single Beholder is technically its own breed, and siblings will soon attempt to kill each other over, say, a particular spot or mole.
- Basically like Parasytes, except as an Airborne Mook- they facehug your soldiers to breed, draining their health and making the soldier useless, and spawn another Cloud Stalker should they successfully kill the soldier.
Source: Goddamned Bats / Kingdom Rush
Cite this Source
Kill and Breed. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/breed/kill
Breed & Kill. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/breed/kill>.
Kill or Breed. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/breed/kill.
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