breed

breed [-s, bred] v

OE 'warmth, hatching, fostering heat'.

  1. Raise; bring up; [word play on “broad”] amplify; elevate; expand; magnify; enable to grow.
  2. Ferment; multiply; seethe; smolder; spawn; proliferate; propagate; [word play on “breathes”] live; survive; exist; persist; (see Exodus 16:20).