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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

  1. verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
  2. verb To keep and mate animals deliberately, aiming to produce specific traits in their offspring.
  3. verb To cause or lead to something, especially something negative, over time.
  4. noun A particular type of animal (or occasionally plant) within a species, produced through selective mating.

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