reproduce

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: re=pro=duce

CIDE DICTIONARY

reproduce, v. t. 

 To produce again.  [1913 Webster]
"Those colors are unchangeable, and whenever all those rays with those their colors are mixed again they reproduce the same white light as before."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

reproduce, v.
1 tr. produce a copy or representation of.
2 tr. cause to be seen or heard etc. again (tried to reproduce the sound exactly).
3 intr. produce further members of the same species by natural means.
4 refl. produce offspring (reproduced itself several times).
5 intr. give a specified quality or result when copied (reproduces badly in black and white).
6 tr. Biol. form afresh (a lost part etc. of the body).

Derivative

reproducer n. reproducible adj. reproducibility n. reproducibly adv.

THESAURUS

reproduce

Photostat, Xerox, be fruitful, be productive, bear, beget, blossom, breed, brew, burgeon, clone, come again, copy, develop, ditto, do a repeat, do again, do over, double, dupe, duplicate, echo, engender, facsimile, flourish, fructify, gather, geminate, generate, germinate, grow, grow up, hectograph, hypertrophy, imitate, increase, ingeminate, make over, manifold, match, mature, microcopy, microfilm, mimeo, mimeograph, multigraph, multiply, multiply by two, mushroom, outgrow, overdevelop, overgrow, overtop, parrot, plagiarize, procreate, produce, proliferate, propagate, pullulate, quadruplicate, quote, re-create, re-form, rebuild, reconstitute, reconstruct, recreate, redesign, redo, redouble, reduplicate, reecho, reestablish, refashion, refound, regenerate, regurgitate, reincarnate, reinstitute, reissue, remake, renew, renovate, reorganize, repeat, replicate, reprint, reshape, restore, restructure, resurrect, revise, revive, say again, shoot up, simulate, spawn, spring up, sprout, sprout up, stat, teem, thrive, tower, trace, transcribe, triplicate, twin, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upsprout, vegetate, wax

ROGET THESAURUS

reproduce

Imitation

VB imitate, copy, mirror, reflect, reproduce, repeat, do like, echo, reecho, catch, transcribe, match, parallel, mock, take off, mimic, ape, simulate, impersonate, personate, act, represent, counterfeit, parody, travesty, caricature, lampoon, burlesque, follow in the steps of, tread in the steps, follow in the footsteps of, follow in the wake of, take pattern by, follow suit, follow the example of, walk in the shoes of, take a leaf out of another's book, strike in with, follow suit, take after, model after, emulate.

Restoration

VB return to the original state, recover, rally, revive, come come to, come round, come to oneself, pull through, weather the storm, be oneself again, get well, get round, get the better of, get over, get about, rise from one's ashes, rise from the grave, survive, resume, reappear, come to, come to life again, live again, rise again, heal, skin over, cicatrize, right itself, restore, put back, place in statu quo, reinstate, replace, reseat, rehabilitate, reestablish, reestate, reinstall, reconstruct, rebuild, reorganize, reconstitute, reconvert, renew, renovate, regenerate, rejuvenate, redeem, reclaim, recover, retrieve, rescue, redress, recure, cure, heal, remedy, doctor, physic, medicate, break of, bring round, set on one's legs, resuscitate, revive, reanimate, revivify, recall to life, reproduce, warm up, reinvigorate, refresh, make whole, redintegrate, recoup, make good, make all square, rectify, correct, put right, put to rights, set right, set to rights, set straight, set up, put in order, refit, recruit, fill up, fill up the ranks, reinforce, repair, put in repair, remanufacture, put in thorough repair, put in complete repair, retouch, refashion, botch, vamp, tinker, cobble, do up, patch up, touch up, plaster up, vamp up, darn, finedraw, heelpiece, stop a gap, stanch, staunch, caulk, calk, careen, splice, bind up wounds.

Repetition

VB repeat, iterate, reiterate, reproduce, echo, reecho, drum, harp upon, battologize, hammer, redouble, recur, revert, return, reappear, recurse, renew, rehearse, do over again, say over again, ring the changes on, harp on the same string, din in the ear, drum in the ear, conjugate in all its moods tenses and inflexions, begin again, go over the same ground, go the same round, never hear the last of, resume, return to, recapitulate, reword.

Reproduction

VB reproduce, restore, revive, renovate, renew, regenerate, revivify, resuscitate, reanimate, remake, refashion, stir the embers, put into the crucible, multiply, repeat, resurge, crop up, spring up like mushrooms.