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размножаться — meaning in English

razmnozhatsya

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English meaning

  • breed verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
  • multiply verb To perform the mathematical operation that combines a number with itself a given number of times.
  • proliferate verb To increase in number or spread rapidly; to multiply.
  • propagate verb To spread or pass something on, such as information, a belief, or a disease.
  • pullulate verb To multiply rapidly.
  • reproduce verb To make a copy of something, such as an image, document, or sound.

Senses

размножаться is used for these senses in English:

  • breed To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
  • multiply (intransitive) To breed or propagate.
  • proliferate (ambitransitive) To increase in number or spread rapidly; to multiply.
  • propagate (transitive) To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate.
  • propagate (biology, intransitive) To produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants.
  • pullulate To multiply rapidly.
  • reproduce (transitive) To bring something to mind; to recall.

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.

multiply — full definition

  1. verb To perform the mathematical operation that combines a number with itself a given number of times.
  2. verb To increase greatly in number or amount.

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