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bred up

bred up is the simple past and past participle of breed up.

Meaning of breed up

Verb

breed up (third-person singular simple present breeds up, present participle breeding up, simple past and past participle bred up)

  1. (transitive) To educate; to instruct; to bring up.

Questions about bred up

What is bred up the simple past and past participle of?
Bred up is the simple past and past participle of breed up.

Words near bred up in the dictionary

  1. Brecqhou
  2. bred
  3. bred in the bone
  4. bred like rabbits
  5. bred true
  6. bred up
  7. bred-in-the-bone
  8. Breda
  9. Bredah
  10. Bredbo
  11. Bredbury

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bred up (page history and authors); breed up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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