Incubate
Incubate verb - To cover and warm eggs as the young inside develop.
Make and incubate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Make" instead a verb "Incubate".
Nearby Words: incubation, incubator, incubating, incubatory, incubative
Make
Make verb - To bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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The moth used in the scene at Orthanc was real; to make that scene work, they had to get a bunch of chrysalises from a giant moth species and incubate them for weeks.
Source: Butterfly of Death and Rebirth -
The only way to make Zombrex is from the Queens that incubate within certain Zombies.
Source: Video Game / Dead Rising 2 - In the comic, while the character named Her does begin the process that will eventually make Quasar (and several other male superheroes as well) incubate a child, Quaze is able to talk her into cancelling it before any reproduction even occurs, much less the full-term that the cover showed.
Source: Covers Always Lie / Comic Books
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