kasvattaa — meaning in English
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English meaning
- augment verb To make something larger or stronger by adding to it.
- breed verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
- educate verb To teach or train someone, giving them knowledge or skills.
- foster verb To raise or care for a child who is not biologically one's own.
- grow verb To increase in size, amount, or extent over time.
- increase verb To become larger in amount, number, or degree.
- nurture noun Care and encouragement given to help someone or something grow and develop.
- parent noun A person who raises, cares for, or has legal responsibility for a child.
- raise verb To move or lift something to a higher position.
- rear verb To bring up and care for a child or young animal until maturity.
- spawn verb Of fish, frogs, or other aquatic creatures, to lay eggs in water.
- stretch verb To pull or extend something so it becomes longer or tighter.
- up adverb Toward or in a higher position; away from the ground.
Senses
kasvattaa is used for these senses in English:
- breed To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.
- bring up To raise or rear (children).
- educate (transitive) To instruct or train.
- foster (transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
- grow (transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
- increase (transitive) To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
- nurture To nourish or nurse.
- parent To act as parent, to raise or rear.
breed — full definition
- verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
- verb To keep and mate animals deliberately, aiming to produce specific traits in their offspring.
- verb To cause or lead to something, especially something negative, over time.
- noun A particular type of animal (or occasionally plant) within a species, produced through selective mating.