Procreate

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: pro=cre=ate

CIDE DICTIONARY

Procreate, v. t. [L. procreatus, p. p. of procreare; pro forward, forth + create to create.].

 To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Procreate, v.tr. (often absol.) bring (offspring) into existence by the natural process of reproduction.

Derivative

procreant adj. procreative adj. procreation n. procreator n.

Etymology

L procreare procreat- (as PRO-(1), creare create)

THESAURUS

Procreate

bear, beget, birth, blossom, breed, breed true, brew, bring forth, bring into being, bring to birth, burgeon, call into being, coin, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up, copulate, create, crossbreed, design, develop, devise, discover, dream up, engender, evolve, fabricate, father, flourish, frame, gather, generate, germinate, get, give being to, give birth to, give rise to, grow, grow up, hatch, hypertrophy, improvise, inbreed, increase, invent, make, make do with, make love, make up, mature, mint, mother, multiply, mushroom, originate, outbreed, outgrow, overdevelop, overgrow, overtop, parent, plan, produce, progenerate, proliferate, propagate, pullulate, reproduce, reproduce in kind, shoot up, sire, spawn, spring up, sprout, sprout up, strike out, think out, think up, thrive, tower, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upsprout, vegetate, wax

ROGET THESAURUS

Procreate

Production

VB produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture, weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel, build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up, establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute, achieve, accomplish, flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle, bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world, make productive, create, beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate, procreate, progenerate, propagate, engender, bring into being, call into being, bring into existence, breed, hatch, develop, bring up, induce, superinduce, suscitate, cause, acquire.

Productiveness

VB make productive, fructify, procreate, generate, fertilize, spermative, impregnate, fecundate, fecundify, teem, multiply, produce, conceive.